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Posted: 22 May 2014


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Air compressor

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In the hoist shack at the Mizpah Mine, on the grounds of the new mining museum in Tonopah, Nevada, USA. Note the large electric motor driving the belt. Presumably the compressed air drove the miners' drills, but it also may have had a role in ventilation.

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