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A truck of 4 and 5 inch balled and burlapped trees that will be planted in two East Liberty parking lots. |
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Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest received PennVest money to green 5 parking lots in East Liberty. This shot shows the parking lot as concrete is being dug out in preparation for trees. |
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This panorama is best viewed in Google Earth, where the tops of the tanks will look less distorted. If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link. |
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Thanks to Randy Sargent for help setting this up.
If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link. |
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The tall structure with ramp, closest to the camera is Blast Furnace No. 6, and the one at left, beyond the tanks is No. 7.
The red gantry crane at right was used to manage the huge piles of coke, iron ore, and limestone between the furnaces and the river (at far left & far right in this 360 degree view), and feed them into the blast furnaces. For background on blast furnaces, see http://www.theweebsite.com/trains/blast-furnace.html If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link. |
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This is the cast house of Carrie Furnace blast furnace number 6. In the floor are the channels or "runners" through which molten iron flowed. Sluice gates (is that the right terminology?) were used to control the flow. The iron poured directly into "torpedo" rail cars parked below this floor, for transport across the Monongahela River to Homestead Works where the iron was refined into steel and rolled into beams and sheet steel. Slag was skimmed off the top of the molten iron here in the cast house and diverted via slag runners into "slag pot" rail cars, also parked below this floor, for disposal.
An explanation of how a blast furnace works: http://www.theweebsite.com/trains/blast-furnace.html Thanks to Randy Sargent for help setting this up. If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link. Photographic note: perhaps the lens flare was caused by dust on the lens; I should have cleaned it. |
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Inside the AC Power House of the abandoned Carrie Furnace, Rankin, PA.
Thanks to Randy Sargent for help setting this up. If you're viewing this at gigapan.org, I suggest you click the 'view in Google Earth' link. |
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testing out/showing off the gigapan for some friends while I got my pre-work coffee. http://www.quietstormcoffee.com |
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Fred Jaroudi is a resident of Plum Borough and an owner of a local gym called Community Health Center in the town of Penn Hills for the past sixteen years. Community Health Center is a gym that is equipped with everything from cardio machines to passive machines. Passive machines are a big hit at the gym, because they offer a great workout for people who have limited mobility or who cannot use the other equipment. Also passive machines are state of the art technology, which a lot of other gyms do not offer.
Another great aspect of The Community Health Center is that they have an agreement with the local insurance of hospitals such as UMPC. Jaroudi says, “We accept almost all insurances but never turn away anyone even if they are not covered”. Along with being a gym, it is also an U-Haul location, which allows residents of the area a convenient renting area. As well as being a gym owner Fred Jaroudi is also a marathon runner who as placed in the top of his age ranks almost every race. Such as the 21st running of the Monroeville Classic 10K where Jaroudi placed first within his age group. Jaroudi is a true entrepreneur because is also involved with the company TekVal Int'l Inc. TekVal Int'l Inc is a company that sells and invents new renewable energy sources. Such as solar panels that Jaroudi has heating the Community Health Center. TekVal Int'l Inc has several different renewable energy sources for sale such as solar water heater, solar air conditioning, wind turbines, and solar panels-garden-street lights. Jaroudi states, “One of these wind turbines can power over 500,000 homes and this means that America will not need to rely on oil and gas from other countries”. TekVal Int'l Inc is working with the University of Pittsburgh and their undergrad engineering students to create and learn about these renewable resources. The goal of TekVal Int'l Inc in Pittsburgh Jaroudi states “Regenerate Pittsburgh image from the old steel mill into new technology which will better the city.” More information about TekVal Int'l Inc and all they have to offer can be located at www.TekVal.org. |
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Photo taken in the lab while students were completing water tests after getting various water samples. |