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Wright Bros Woodshop

I was reading through my e-mail at work, when I came across one that mentioned The Wright State University Library (I work for an Ohio Library). Anyway, they have digitized all of their Wright Bro photos and being a plane (or is it plain?)fanatic, I checked it out. I found the following photo, and thought that this would be a good place to show it.
 
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Great photo Dan! I live here in Dayton,Ohio and my sister has worked for the Dayton and Montgomery county Library for about 35yrs and I used to always bug her about photos and stuff, she would always say just come and look. So I'm an avid Library user and thank you guys for all your hard work. They need to lay off all the stupid budget cuts.
WE NEED OUR LIBRARYS! I go to the Wright Brothers Grave site quite often and I just sit there and think WOW! where would the world be right now without these guys? And almost all of the time, A plane will fly over out of Wright Patterson A.F.B. Its like Wow they are still around! Thanks for the picture and the link.
Thanks for sharing.
 
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Man, I love to see those old places with all of those shafts and belts in the ceiling. BTW, check out that steam powered sawmill on Roy Underhill's site, The Wood Wright Shop, if you like this sort of thing. It a very interesting video about a restored sawmill which runs off of a steam engine with plenty of old equipment that still operates.
 
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I really enjoyed looking for what machines they had. And yes, that is a shaper in the foreground. It's even a 2 spindle shaper. If you look real close, you can see a table saw (I think) behind the thickness planer and in the background there is a crosscutting saw. Kind of looks like my radial-arm but upside down (the blade comes up through the wood from below). I really have to hand it to the Wright University Library for cataloging and preserving these photos. Look at what we would lose if they hadn't!
 
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Very Cool photo.Thanks for sharing. Love the old overhead belt systems. If any one gets a chance to visit Harper's Ferry WV they have an old shop there all powered by overhead belts.

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