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Show Paper-Making The center around which paper making spins is the paper-making machine, says a writer in the Scientific Sci-entific American. It is a gigantic combination of intricate mechanisms mechan-isms which takes in raw stock at one end and spins forth paper at the other. A full-sized machine approaches ap-proaches 200 feet in length, weighs nearly a million pounds and costs in the neighborhood of a half million dollars. Because it is a grouping of machinery, one might say that there is a hazard every foot of the length. There are some fifty individual motors, mo-tors, about twenty - five pumps, thousands of feet of pipe and many miles of wire. Every unit must coordinate co-ordinate perfectly to deliver a product prod-uct that is satisfactory. |