Lampworks 8 — The Machine Shop

 

In a well-equipped machine shop on the first floor of the Lampworks a team of machinists kept machines running to fulfill the last order for tubes from the tube presses in the neighboring shed. 

 

 

I wish I had more often set my tripod beside the men at their precision work to simply have more angles on the shop. The machines were sold when the tube mill closed. There was little left here for the pigeons or for the fire to claim — just memories.

Machining is, arguably, the signature skill of the industrial age as programming is of our digital times. Does such human re-wiring change us?