workers who operated it, mechanics who maintained it, miners and laborers who supplied raw materials, and countless others whose work kept factories and processing plants running.
Much of that labor was repetitive and physically demanding.
The machines may have been enormous, but they still required human hands and human judgment.
Every polished building, manufactured product, or piece of infrastructure has a story that extends far beyond the finished object. Somewhere in that chain are the raw materials, the processing plants, the machinery, and the people who made everything possible.
