...all cleaned up. On loan 'long term' now :)

[mglentz4125]

. Odd item amongst the trash targets of the world.

 

[MadTom]

You found that? Pretty cool

 

[vpnavy]

A little history...

Michigan Technological University​

Michigan Tech was founded in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School.[7] After much agitation by Jay Abel Hubbell, the state legislature established the school to train mining engineers. Hubbell donated land for the school's first buildings.[8]

The school started with four faculty members and twenty-three students. It was housed in the Houghton Fire Hall from 1886 through 1889.[9]

A few years after the school's creation, enrollment grew to such a point that its name no longer reflected its purpose. The name was then changed to the Michigan College of Mines in 1897.[10] This name lasted through World War I until 1925, but by this time the school had begun offering a wider variety of degrees and once again decided to change its name to the Michigan College of Mining and Technology in 1927.[10]

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[mk4125]

You found that? Pretty cool

. Technically it was in a discarded heap still attached to the a display cabinet piece...so more of a visual find than using the ol' coil.

 

[Trezurehunter]

What a nice find.