this was designed and built by george corliss, who the united states was celebrated as james watt wasthis is pre-civil war technology. if you look at the fly wheel and the immensity of that, also understanding it is precisely manufactured. there's a massive belt that came off of this. it was a machine larger than this that there was a machine that had to make that. it is huge. in terms of reach, it's obviously massive, the moon and beyond. it's very wrong to think of mid-19th century manufacturing, whether europe or the united states, as being this pummeling, low-level, amateurish kind of affair. it was the high-tech of its day. involved,liss, he was like other manufacturers. he took it too high extreme informs of standardized manufacturing. when people understand mass production, think of a moving assembly line, imagine the components of achievements that allow that to take place can all be traced to the 19th century with people trying to standardize screw threads, motion,, slaughterhouses were using disassembly lines to take care of meat processing. the resort and cans of interchang