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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.

" The Forevertron, despite its size and weight, was designed to be relocatable to a different site — the sculpture is built in sections that are connected by bolts and pins.