Forevertron
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Forevertron is the largest scrap metal sculpture in the world standing 50 ft. (15,2 m.) high and 120 ft. (36,5 m.) wide. It is housed in Dr. Evermore's Art Park on Highway 12, just below Devil's Lake in Wisconsin.
Its creator, Dr. Evermor, was born Tom Every[1] 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 fictional Victorian inventor who designed the Forevertron to launch himself "into the heaven on a magnetic lightning force beam." In addition to the Forevertron itself, Every/Evermor has built a tea house from which he says Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (both long dead in reality) may observe the event. The sculpture incorporates an actual decontamination chamber from the Apollo Project, as well as dynamos built by Thomas Edison, and scrap salvaged from the nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant. Dr. Evermore's Art Park is also home to many other sculptures, including various gigantic insects and a bird symphony. The park is closed on Tuesday and Wednesdays. On the days when it is open, if the main gates are still locked the park can be accessed from the junkyard of the surplus store adjacent to it.
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- Forevertron - Write-up by the Field Review Team at RoadsideAmerica.com.
- An Artist's Junkyard of Dreams - Article from Wired magazine's Great River Road series.
- Video diaries of the park - A walk-through of the park in nine unedited videos.
- [1] - LuLu Fry's first-hand experience at Dr. Evermor's fantastical Forevertron just south of Baraboo, WI.
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