Jul 22, 2008
Manhole Cover Made in India; Why?
This manhole cover was made in India and is covering a manhole in the United States. No wonder we’re running out of natural resources and destroying the Earth with pollution.
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5 Comments, Comment or Ping
Ravindra
ROFLMAO! I didnt believe you when I read the text alert on my phone.
Jul 23rd, 2008
Raam
Yeah, I walked over this every single day, as it was on the sidewalk near where I work. Every time I walked over it I wanted to take a picture and wished I had a camera on my phone. Now that I have an iPhone, that’s the first picture I posted using it.
Jul 23rd, 2008
Ravindra
sweet haha
Jul 23rd, 2008
k.t
HI. I took a “manholecover” class in NYC at the Science and Industry Library (SIBL) Turns out for a while in the 60/70’s the USA wanted to improve economic relations w/India so they assigned an “economic development” package for India to make manhole covers for the USA (a lot for NYC). Then people started to complain about “exporting” jobs so now they are back in USA making the covers. There is a movement in NYC to help preserve manhole covers from getting paved over.
Nov 16th, 2008
Raam
Wow, that is awesome information! I knew there must be a story behind it and that definitely explains a lot. Now it makes me wonder what kind of history that little manhole cover has… how it made it’s way from India, to possibly NYC, and then finally Boston.
I never knew a “manhole cover class” even existed! Learning something new by the minute!
Thanks k.t.!
Nov 16th, 2008
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