OLD FASHIONED WATER PUMP

This water pump was at the Chester on Track Festival. It was one of the displays of old machines. From the sound of it, it had one piston, just chugging away.

MAKING ROPE

Mystic Seaport - Mystic CT - In the long building below, they are making rope. The piece of machinery you see is called a truck that pulls the rope down the building



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The way this piece of machinery works twists the rope evenly so all the strands are equally strong. Before, when people did the twisting, the middle stands were weaker.