The company that manufactures these is interesting in itself: an archetypal family-owned German business that has managed to survive for almost 200 years [1]
There's quite a few of those type of companies left in Germany, I wonder if there are similar examples in the US.
An example that stuck with me is this US company founded in 1623 (ok, it was initially founded in Constantinople and relocated to the US via Romania at the beginning of the 20th century, but still impressive):
There's quite a few of those type of companies left in Germany, I wonder if there are similar examples in the US.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith