Conrad and The Steamplant

Conrad Milster has tended the nineteenth-century steam engines of Pratt Institute's Brooklyn power plant for six decades, and looks after the campus cats too.

A charming portrait of a lifelong devotion to beautiful old machines.

Conrad Milster, Pratt Institute’s chief engineer, has worked in the Brooklyn power plant nearly his entire adult life. Starting as a mechanic in 1958, he later became one of only four chief engineers in the plant’s 127-y

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