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قراءة كتاب Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in America Reproductions of a series of lithographs of munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the united states government, with notes and an introduction by the artist
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Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in America Reproductions of a series of lithographs of munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the united states government, with notes and an introduction by the artist
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THE KEEL
THE shipyards are endless and their forms are endless and ever new—but I never before found one where from the water I could look down on the ship while it grew as it did here, amid its forests, its walls—which it, in turn, would soon tower over.
II
UNDER THE SHED
IT seemed as though this yard was built for me, and if it was not that I found it so practical, I should have thought it only pictorial.
But in the shed in rows, in piles, in layers, lay every part of the ship ready to fit together—all in order. As I drew, boats and boilers came out of the shop and went to their places on board.
III
THE ARMOR PLATE PRESS
THE English maker rolls rapidly his armor plate in heat and smoke and flame. The American slowly presses it, but with a press so powerful it will crush the huge ingot—so sensitive that it will not crack a watch crystal placed under it.
IV
IN THE LAND OF BROBDIGNAG: THE ARMOR PLATE BENDING PRESS
ONLY Swift never imagined, and Gulliver never saw, presses and ladles and chains and cranes like these, but I have seen them, and there is no imagination in my study of the press or the ladle. A press so powerful it will slowly bend the thickest plate. A ladle so big the men were lost in it.
