This will result in both industrial and military supremacyfor it is now well known that military supremacy cannot exist without the highest types of machinery building shops.

Oh, come and see!' I was whirled off to a roundhouse full of engines and machinery-shops, worked by natural gas which comes out of the earth, smelling slightly of fried onions, at a pressure of six hundred pounds, and by valves and taps is reduced to four pounds.

The Whitin Machine Works since 1831: a textile machinery company in an industrial village.

As soon as through the invention of power-driven machinery industry reached the stage of high specialization and division of labor, at once it became a danger to the home, and the home a degradation to it.

A curly haired Vermont machinery salesman, who had sweated at the lathe, became factory manager for a Detroit automobile-maker.

How far does machinery degrade, demoralize, dementalize the worker?

The effect of machinery development in thus throwing on the labour-market a large quantity of women and children competitors is one of those serious questions which will occupy our attention in a later chapter.

For thriving and aspiring Newbern had eased one of its growing pains with a veritable golf course, and the whilom machinery enthusiast became smitten with this strange new sport.

The excessive stock in process is sometimes an outcome of blind progressivenessthe blindness that fails to see that there is as much money tied up in stock in process and in finished product as there is in the entire machinery equipment.

When I arrived there the various works were practically derelict and its vast collection of machinery idle.

BRADFORD (216), a Yorkshire manufacturing town, on a tributary of the Aire, 9 m. W. of Leeds; it is the chief seat of worsted spinning and weaving in England, and has an important wool market; coal and iron mines are at hand, and iron-works and machinery-making are its other industries.

The military history of the war has still to be written, the grim story of machinery misunderstood, improvements resisted, antiquated methods persisted in; but the broad facts are already before the public mind.

Therefore the machinery orders went through Mr. Farrel, the blacksmith, initiating that worthy man into the mysteries of making money without doing anything for it, which seemed little less than a miracle to him.

But as the advantage of each new invention has by the competition of machinery-owners been passed on to the consumer, all other classes of the community have gained in proportion to their consumption of machinery-produced commodities.

They are the various machinery plants and offices of the coal mine and that double row of small houses a quarter of a mile farther up is where the employés live.

FOOTNOTES: [Footnote M: Messrs. Wallis and Whitworth, in their Report on the Industry of the United States, remark at Chapter V."In no branch of manufacture does the application of labour-saving machinery produce, by simple means, more important results than in the working of wood.

With machinery skill disappears and unspecialised intelligence comes in.

At a time when there is much unemployment, and much machinery standing idle, it is so clear to common sense that we could produce more of some particular thing without diminishing the supply of other things, that any apparent statement to the contrary may perhaps seem the height of academic pedantry.

" "It is little; but so is the pivot that a great piece of machinery swings on.

Besides some remarks in it on the progress made in the erection of branch mints and procuring machinery therefor, I inclose a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting more detailed statements as to the new buildings from each of the agents appointed to superintend their erection.

3. To allow the machinery time to grind out the delegates, the national committee, having early determined upon the time and place for holding the convention, issues its "call" some months in advance, say in February or March.

Their machinery trains and elevates, loads and controls the heavy guns.

"Suppose," said I, "that a barge should come along, and need to be drawn up this 'plane'would the old machinery work?"

I give Mr. Scott's language:"My brother and I were, during our High School vacation, some forty years ago, very much indebted to the kindness of a clever young carpenter employed in the machinery workshop of New Lanark Mills, near to which we were residing during our six weeks' holidays."

Each part of this delicate apparatus is so admirably adjusted to every other that all parts of this most complex machinery act in perfect harmony.