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Show American Living Standards Are Direct Product of Machine Age The annual absorption ol 2,600.-000.000 2,600.-000.000 In machinery oy American factoilca is responsible foi the increased in-creased productiveness ot labor, mak ing possslble the higher American wage and standard stand-ard of living, in world competition competi-tion This liberal uf of power ano machinery con stltutes the industrial in-dustrial revolution revolu-tion which m a period of 150 years has at lai become universal declares Dr. Juliu; Klein. assistant : secretary of the U. S. Department ot Commerce. "The industrial revolution started in 1733." said Sccrciary Klein, "wim the invention ot Kay's fly shuttle " Certain other Inventions may be considered con-sidered rcvoIu;:cr:ry ai:d cu-uu-ing. the Secretary added. In this connection, inventions nave been both cau?e and effect, according to Clarence A. O'Brien. WashinTton patent lawyer. While a very large j number of patents issued each year is for the improvement of machinery, ald Mr. O'Brien, this waic machine development has been necessary to make many inventions practicable. The growing use of machinery nae made many inventors wealthy, be added, in that machinery has made possible mass production to a world - ! wide market, producing articles of : broad popular appeal that can be I purchased at very low cost. I "Without the development of this machine age." said Mr O'Brien, "It j is doubtful If America would today be the great source of these revolutionary inventions for which the nation Is noted throughout the world. "An interesting example ol tlie necessity of machinery to an age ol invention is found In the work ol Blaise Pascal, the French scientist In 1645 Pascal, then a young man ol twenty-two. was granted a patent by Lord Chancellor Seguler for a calculating calcu-lating machine. It was a sclcntiflc marvel. More than fifty models were made, with all the many metal part made by hand. The calculating machine ma-chine was soon abandoned, however the hand-work making production toe costly and too slow -In 1S8S. when William Seward Burroughs Bur-roughs took out his first patent, the machine age was ready to produce the first practical adding machine. Mr Burroughs admitted that Pascal's was the first mechanical calculating machine Invented, though It was fa , Irom perfect In operation." |
