Berny's photos with the keyword: cotton

Thermal power plant of a former huge cotton mill (early 1900s) on top of one of the boilers

Thermal power plant of a former huge cotton mill (early 1900s) boiler house

Coal fired thermal powerplant of a former cotton mill (early 1900s) boiler house

Cotton Spinning Mill - steam engine (1895)

The old steam engine, left as it was, resides in the building with "1895". All other buildings are now used as residences. - End of series!

some regulation facilities can be found in the basement of the steam engine building

flyball governor

Cotton Spinning Mill - steam engine (1895)

2-cylinder steam engine in an abandoned cotton spinning mill in Lower Austria see PiP for color!

This is what's left from the Cotton Spinning Mill "Gebrüder Gradner" in Oberwaltersdorf (Lower Austria), later the Braids and Laids Factory "A. Rudolph". The Factory was built in 1819-1821. The production ended 1941, when the arm industry occupied it and operated it as precision parts factory, where among others parts for the V2 rocket were manufactured. All the buildings are now converted to lofts. Only the old giant 2-cylinder steam engine from 1895 remained. The big flywheel has a diameter of about 6 m. More about the steam engine (in German): www.altespinnerei.at/index.php/geschichte/dampfmaschine