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After the Civil War, they made cast iron building columns at the West
Point Foundry, basically using the technology of casting I think in
the ground around a mold, as used in cannon production, to make
cylindrical posts for the building of multi-floor buildings in NYC and
elsewhere. They looked sort of like steel pipe with end joins. A small
locomotive (the West Point Foundry built the first locomotive in the
US for Georgia timber trade, and also sugar boilers, one still in
Puerto Rico, and other machinery) that used to run on NYC elevated
railroad (before they were electrified) fell to the street in a
elevated structure fire and was bought and used in the West Point
Foundry in Cold Spring, NY. As part of the cast-iron building
construction it was probably important in architectural history.
On the side, someone thought of joining these "tubes" together and
since Nobel had invented dynamite, using them as an experimental gun
after the Civil War. The so-called "dynamite gun" was put on a barge
in the Hudson River and fired a wooden projectile up river 2 1/2 (?)
miles perhaps ushering in a new way for humanity to kill. A similar
weapon was reputed to have been invented in the state of Vermont back
in the early 1990's where it was tested. It's inventor was perhaps
assassinated on the streets of Amsterdam, Holland ("Time" magazine)
while we were working in the archaeology of the Foundry Cove and
so-called "Workers Houses". Various claims have been in the press
about it's interception on the way to Libya and Iraq almost a
barometer of belligerence. There are other later weapons in
stereo-pair photos, along with the "dynamite gun" in the West Point
Foundry Schoolhouse Museum that may or may not have been connected
with succeeding manufacturers on the site.
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