Dr. Evermor's Forevertron® is the largest scrap metal sculpture in the world,
standing 50 ft. (15,2 m.) high and 120 ft. (36,5 m.) wide, and weighing 300 tons.
Built in the 1980s, it 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 creator, Tom Every (1938 - 2020), was born in
Brooklyn, Wisconsin and was a demolition expert who spent decades collecting
antique machinery for the sculpture and the surrounding fiction that justifies it.
According to Every, Dr. Evermor® was 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.
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