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Universal Plate Mill, Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, PA, 1899.
flipFlip to Henry C. Frick, circa 1892.
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Birds eye view of Homestead Steel Works.

Credit: Collection of William J. Gaughan, AIS 94:3, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh

After the completion of its 42-inch Universal Plate Mill in 1899, Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel Works had the most extensive universal plate capacity in the World. The 42 inch Mill would shut down in 1933.

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