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Show I Do All but Think J flflj. i fl "' In factories and ofllcos, Increasing HHb yearly in numbers, aro a thousand flHB. machines that surpass human fingers flfll In dcttnoss nnd oven out-thlnk tho HHB. ihitrnnn brain. Now onos nro con-flfll con-flfll Atantly Invented. Hfll Thus tho now machine for decorat-Hfll decorat-Hfll Ing crockery puts on tho china, by a HHb ,lnglo action, tho bordor patterns and BBb monogram centers, which formerly ro-HflB ro-HflB j qulrod a wliolo process ot handwork. H Tho machine is operated by compression compress-ion ed air nnd has n maximum capacity of H dooorating, in this mnnncr, 120 dozen H ,plcces of crock "ry In n single hour H with tho assistance of two boys. H A now speed Indicator has been add-H add-H od to locomotive practlco that not H only Indicates tho varying speod of H the onglno, but automatically applies H tho -brakes whon tho speed oxceeds H jtho established safety limit, thus sue-H sue-H ccssfiilly replacing tho "speed fool" 1 of ouglnccrs. B To do away with guesswork In H ofllco and shop management, and to H find out tho real nmount nnd value ot H , ench and evory different kind of labor H oxpondod on n given plcco of work B thero Is a mnchlno which makes a P pormancnt record by card printing, H loot only of n single period ot time, but uIro ot an lndoflnlto cumber ot periods. peri-ods. This record shows tho number of hours and minutes put on tho job, and also tho tlmo of day when the Job was started. When tho Job is done tho totals of Inbor costs nro entered on tho outsldo of tho envelope containing con-taining them, together with a record of tho material used. Each record Is entered on tho factory books for per-mnnont per-mnnont reference Tho Bowing of buttons on shoes nnd on garments Is no longer dono by hand in modern factories. Thero Is a machine, that sous 5 300 buttons on garments In nlno hours or more than eight oxpert sowers could possibly do In tho samo tlmo. This machine, requires re-quires no expert operator. A buy or girl runs It. And In ono Insuranco ofTIco, whero It was formerly necessary for n forco of clerks to copy names on referenco cards to bo died In various places, ono clerk now writes tho namo on a nlnglo card with metallic Ink, clamps it In a holder with a number ot blnnk cards, nnd flashes an X-ray through the packet Thus by a slnglo motion one man writes, or rather prints, all tho cards. Tho World's I Work. |