EditorialWorkers during the production of hydraulic blocks and slide valves at Hawe Hydraulik in Kaufbeuren, Germany on June 21, 2023. (Ingmar Nolting/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers during the production of hydraulic blocks and slide valves at Hawe Hydraulik in Kaufbeuren, Germany on June 21, 2023. (Ingmar Nolting/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers during the production of hydraulic blocks and slide valves at Hawe Hydraulik in Kaufbeuren, Germany on June 21, 2023. (Ingmar Nolting/The New York Times)
EditorialOne of the hydraulic lifting posts in the basement of the historic Palace Theater, in preparation to lift it three stories to add retail space underneath, in Manhattan?s Time Square, Jan. 7, 2022. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialConstruction crews removed a sculpture from a flat bed trailer using a hydraulic gantry during the installation of Richard Serra?s show at Gagosian Gallery in New York, August 21, 2019. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialJoel Schmidt, an Army Corps hydraulic engineer, at the Chicago Harbor Lock facility on the city’s shoreline, where Lake Michigan feeds the Chicago River, April 13, 2021. (Lyndon French/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of Carol Bove's team shape the steel beams of her sculptures, intended for the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the help of a hydraulic press at her studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Nov. 10, 2020. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)