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Show A TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN MACHINE TOOLS Dr. Isldor Loew of Berlin, who was taken away In his 62d year by blood poisoning, was In many respeeta the prototype of the business man peculiar pe-culiar to the latest phase of Industrial Indus-trial life in the derma n empire. A combination of technical genius and commercial alertness is not so rare in Germany as in countries of older Industrial development We find In the generation now gradually passing away quite a number of engineers en-gineers with a remarkable business head on their shoulders and on the other hand men of commercial training train-ing 'with an Inborn gift for technical problems. Tho late Dr. Iiewe belonged to tho second class He was a self-made self-made man. Born at Ilelllgenstadt as one of the many children of a teacher teach-er In a Jewish elementary echool, ho had to go into business at an early age. In some respects, however, his brother, Ludwlg Loewe, who was eleven elev-en years his senior, had paved the way for hlni It was Ludwlg LoGwe who first adopted American methods of fabrication In the Fatherland immediately im-mediately before the Franco-Prussian war. At that time sewing machines were almost exclusively imixirtcd from America, When Mr. Ludwlg Loewe started a manufactory of wewing machines ma-chines in Berlin, he soon perceived that the superiority of the American firms was based upon the excellence of the machine tools that were constructed con-structed for their special needs and allowed them a wholesale production of first class machines at low rates. He therefore ordered some of the most improved machine tools from America for his own use. Then the Idea struck Mm that the same improvement im-provement may also bo introduced into the manufactory of rifles, for which there was then a lare demand, de-mand, as the whole German Infantry Infan-try was to .be. equipped with new arms In lS71.''He constructed precision pre-cision tools for the rational fabrication fabrica-tion of the smaller parts of military rifles and thereby was enabled to beat his competitors. Very soon tho manufacture of small fire arms became be-came the most Important specialty of the rirm; the construction of sewing muchlncs being entirely abandoned in 1S79 Continental Correspondence. |
