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Dordt in Stoom 2014 – Vlootschouw – Stadsgraanzuiger № 19

Dordt in Stoom 2014 – Vlootschouw – Stadsgraanzuiger № 19
Floating steam grain elevator. These were used to transfer grain and such like from ships to the shore. The introduction of grain elevators in the early 20th century led to a strike in the harbour of Rotterdam, because many jobs were lost.

See also the movies I made of the steam festival Dordt in Stoom:
Fleet parade:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFATBOw1roo
Steam tugs:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqCpmkBiruA
Steam locomotives:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3lCpyh3JCI
Steam engines:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqom5CbcWVA
Steam grain elevator:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=trBVDL-7hr0
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 Michiel 2005
Michiel 2005 club
Mechanisation and computerisation also got rid of a lot of tedious, dangerous and unhealthy jobs. I don't think there are many volunteers nowadays for unloading by hand of a ship full of grain. The ordinary working man is much better off today.
12 years ago.
 Michiel 2005
Michiel 2005 club
It is of course no good to say to somebody who has just lost his job because of a steam engine that he will be better off in the future.

As Woody Allen said: “...my father was fired. He was technologically unemployed. My father had worked for the same firm for twelve years. They fired him. They replaced him with a tiny gadget, this big, that does everything my father does, only it does it much better. The depressing thing is, my mother ran out and bought one.”
12 years ago. Edited 12 years ago.

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