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Show Every Link in Chain of Anchor Must Be Perfect The terrible effects which might result re-sult from carelessness In a blacksmith's black-smith's work are well Illustrated by the great importance of every link in the chain of a ship's anchor. . ( The anchor chains of the Lusitania were 300 fathoms long nearly 2.000 feet-r-with a weight of 123 tons. Every link has to be carefully welded at the proper temperature. Such work requires re-quires infinite care, for In no case is the saying truer than the chain is only as strong as the weakest link. On every single link in such a chain the safety of a giant vessel and the lives of perhaps 2.000 persons may depend. The earliest blacksmiths' forges known were holes in the sides of hills, called boomeries. The Romans In- vented the first bellows about the year 350. using a bladder of goat skin. Nowadays enormous ingots of steel are heated in furnaces, and the hydraulic hy-draulic forging press is taking the place of the blacksmith's hammer and anvil. The hammer wielded by the strong arm of the village smithy becomes, be-comes, Instead, a hammer equal In weight to one of thousands of tons. |