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Show Do Ail but Think fl In factorlos and ofllces, increasing yearly In numbers, nro a thousand machines that surpass human lingers In deftness nnd oven out-think tho humnu . brain. Now ones are constantly con-stantly invonted. ThujUlhonow machlmvfqr docornt-lns docornt-lns croZlforS' jiuta on, tlircliJnn, by 'n single action, tho border patterns nnd monogrnm eontcrs, which formerly required re-quired a wliolo process of handwork. Tho mnchlno Is operated by compressed compress-ed nlr nnd has n mnx'imum capacity of decorating, In this mnnner, 120 dozon pieces of crockery In a slnglo hour with tho nsslstanco of two boys. A now speed Indlcntor has been added add-ed to locomotlvo practlco that not only indlcatos tho varying speed of tho onglno, but automatically applies tho brakos whon tho speed oxcoeds tho established safety llrmt, thus successfully suc-cessfully roplaclng tho "speed feci" of onglncors. To do nway with guosswork in office nnd shop management, nnd to find out tho real nmount nnd value of each and overy dlfforont kind of labor oxponded on n glvon plcco of work thoro Is a mnchlno which mnkos a permanent record by enrd printing, not only of a slnglo period ot time, but also of nn lndoflnlto numbor of periods. peri-ods. This record shows the number of hours and rotates put on tho Job, nnd also tho tlmof day whon the Job wns started. hon tho Job Is dono tho totals of rflgor costs aro entered on.'-l ftUtefrlqJK jho tinvclopo con-' tuiirTjIiTttcijE'fW'uVor wftti Jn rocoM of tho material Md. Each record Is entered on tho f"fory books for permanent per-manent refercntt Tho sewing offcuttons on shoes and on garments Is no longer dono by hand In modern factories. Thero Is n mnchlno that sevs C 300 buttons on garments In nlno hours or moro than eight oxport sowers could possibly do In tho snmo time. This machine requires re-quires no expert operator. A boy or' girl runs It. And In ono Insuranco ofllco, whoro It was formerly necessary for n forco of clerics to copy names on roforonco cards to bo filed In various places, ono clerk now writes tho namo on n slnglo card with metallic ink, clamps it In a holder with a number of blank cards, and flashes an X-ray through tho packet. Thus by a slnglo motion ono man wrltos, or rather prints, nil tho cards. Tho World's Work. |