Show yron ynos AT pen PEU POUND round V A gentleman visiting the american watch companas Comp anys factory at Waltham mass lass relates that a small vial such as hommo homeopathic pills are kept in was handed to him which was filled with what seemed to be grains of coarse sand of the color of blue tempered steel on examination under a microscope they proved to be perfect screws of which it required to 0 wel wei weigh a pound microscopic bits of steel with the ther points exquisitely polished we re also shown so small that fifty weigh eds only ft single grain these The were said saia tobe worth twenty thousand dollars per pound these as well as every other of the running parts of the watch are made entirely by machinery which turns out each dif dlf different gerent piece exactly like its fellows I 1 the following is his description of the method of making the theline nine fine screws what you sea at a first glance is a thin thread of steel finer than thau the most moat delicate of pin pins slowly pursuing suing its way through 1 a little hole in a machine and being grasped by a tiny tool which runs reus round it as s if embracing it and then presto out comes a knife and cuts off air its head all this is done so quickly have to walt wait and watch the operation after atton you know what it is iball all sil about before you can sea see the process I 1 have described the bits thus be headed with a knife look exactly like little grains of powder but put they are screws you notice that when you take a microscope cro scope to examine them they are complete at almost most not quite u ro yett yeti A girl picks them up one by Y one with a dainty tool and places them iii in ro rows ws one in every hole in a flat piece of steel this little plate as soon as it is filled is placed under another machine and it would do any irishman good to see it work it beats donnybrook Doney brook fair all hollow I 1 never had A more convincing proof of the superiority of the f esl ezal oter over manual labor for while a good hearty man with a stout bit of shill aleh may break half a dozen heads of a day with fair luck this machine without so much assaying saying as by your leave comes out of It its hole hoie and runs along each row quietly splitting the head of each one of them exactly in the center and now the screw is made r al v k 1 A 4 |