Far be it for an American President to publicly congratulate (let alone even mention) AMERICAN ingenuity and AMERICAN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE for the miracle rescue of the Chilean Miners.
Schramm Inc. of West Chester, Pennsylvania built the drills and equipment used to reach the trapped miners.
Center Rock Company, also from Pennsylvania, built the drill bits used to reach the miners.
UPS, the US shipping company, delivered the 13-ton drilling equipment from Pennsylvania to Chile in less than 48 hours.
Crews from Layne Christensen Company of Wichita Kansas and its subsidiary Geotec Boyles Bros. worked the drills and machinery to locate and reach the miners and then enlarge the holes to ultimately rescue them.
Jeff Hart of Denver Colorado was called off his job drilling water wells for the U.S. Army's forward operating bases in Afghanistan to lead the drilling crew that reached the miners.
Atlas Copco Construction Mining Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin provided consulting on how to make drilling equipment from different sources work together under differing pressure specifications.
Aries Central California Video of Fresno California designed the special cameras that were lowered nearly a mile into the ground sending back video of the miners.
Zephyr Technologies of Annapolis Maryland, made the remote monitors of vital signs that miners will wear during their ascent.
NASA Engineers designed the "Phoenix" capsule that miners would be brought to the surface in, and provided medical consulting, special diets and spandex suits to maintain miners' blood pressure as they're brought back to the surface.
Oh, and Candadian-based Precision Drilling Corp. and South-African company Murray & Roberts, drilled a backup rescue shafts in case the American rig failed. Which it didn't.
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4 comments:
yeah too bad we could not have done the same with the fatal cave ins we had here in recent years
The ONLY way that Obama would praise the AMERICAN companies that were crucial to beating (by almost 2 months!!) the original rescue date would be if they were MUSLIM owned companies or a Muslim person was hurt while the rescue ewas performed...then, he would have held a national news conference to praise Muslim ingenuity and sacrifice and tell the world how this was another example of how the MUSLIMS are kind, peaceful, helpful, and just downright loving of their fellow people....but, THAT didn't happen....
That's because Obama doesn't give a rat's patoot about America. He isn't even American. He isn't Christian. He isn't going to praise a country he doesn't believe in.
Great article about American ingenuity. We owe much of our drilling and mining expertise to early well drillers and wildcatters from the 30's and 40's.
Our economic policies in years past allowed American science and ingenuity to surge forward. The future? Not so sure.
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