Dr.
Evermor's Forevertron, built in the 1980s, is the largest scrap metal
sculpture in the world, standing 50 feet high and 120 feet wide, and weighing
300 tons.
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The Forevertron is housed in Dr. Evermor's Art Park on
Highway 12, in the town of Sumpter, in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States.
The sculpture incorporates two Thomas Edison dynamos
from the 1880s, lightning rods, high-voltage components from 1920s power
plants, scrap from the nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant, and the
decontamination chamber from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Its fictional creator,
Dr. Evermor, was born Tom Every in Brooklyn, Wisconsin and is a former
demolition expert who spent decades collecting antique machinery for the
sculpture and the surrounding fiction that justifies it. 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."
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THE FOREVERTRON
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