Forevertron – The World’s Largest Scrap Metal Sculpture
If you’re ever traveling down Highway 12, in the middle of no where Sumpter, Wisconsin, stop in and have a look at the world’s largest scrap metal sculpture – Dr. Evermor’s Forevertron.
Built in the 1980′s, Forevertron stands 50 ft. high, 120 ft. wide, and weighs 300 tons. It is at Dr. Evermore’s Art Park on Highway 12, in the town of Sumpter, Wisconsin. Here’s what the sculpture incorporates: 2 Thomas Edison dynamos from the 1880s, lightning rods, components from 1920′s power plants, scrap from Badger Army Ammunition Plant, and most impressively, the decontamination chamber from the Apollo 11 spacecraft.
Dr. Evermor, the sculpture’s fictional creator, was born Tom Every in Brooklyn, Wisconsin. He is a former demolitions expert who collected antique machinery for decades. According to Every, Dr. Evermor is “a Victorian inventor who designed the Forevertron to launch himself into the heavens on a magnetic lightning force beam.”
Dr. Evermor’s art park is home to many other sculptures related to Forevertron, including the “Celestial Listening Ear” and the “Overlord Master Control Tower.” Others are gigantic insects, the “Epicurean” bellows-driven barbecue train, “The Dragon” and “The UFO.” The “Bird Band and Orchestra” includes nearly 70 birds ranging in the size of a child to twenty feet tall They are constructed from industrial parts, geological survey markers, knives, loudspeakers, springs, and musical instruments.
In addition to Forevertron, the park includes a tea house gazebo. Here, Every says Queen Victoria and Prince Albert may observe the launch of Dr. Evermor.
Source: Wikipedia
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