A couple of good precision machining business images I found:
Image from web page 1050 of “Electrical planet” (1883)
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Title: Electrical world
Year: 1883 (1880s)
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Subjects: Electrical engineering
Publisher: [New York McGraw-Hill Pub. Co., and so on.]
Contributing Library: Engineering – University of Toronto
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he Regular Underground CableCompany near the northwest corner entrance. The installation of ing was in its infancy. About the walls of the exhibit spaces arehung photographs of the pioneers and their early perform. The Jumbodynamo, produced by the Edison Machine Performs, direct-connected toa higher-speed engine, forms an intriguing comparison with themodel of the General Electric io,ooo-hp Niagara generator, which 1036 ELECTRICAL World and ENGINEER. Vol. XLIII, Xo. 22 is across the aisle. The 1st Edison electric locomotive vith itspassenger vehicle shows in a graphic way the progress in transportationmade given that 1880. The photograph of the British section reveals the splendid displayof electrical and scientific instruments made by the English manu-facturers. Most of these instruments have been tested and havecertificates from Lord Kelvins laboratory or the National PhysicalLaboratory. The General Post Workplace makes an excellent displayof the telegraphic apparatus used in Great Britain. Kelvin and
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FIG. six.—ENGLISH EXHIBIT. James White, of Glasgow, and Muirhead & Co., of Kent, have casesof galvanometers, condensers, normal cells, ammeters, voltmetersand other instruments of precision. In the foreground may possibly beseen a working model of Behrs monorail and higher-speed car asauthorized by act of Parliament for the railway in between Manchesterand Liverpool, to be operated at a speed of no miles per hour. The greater element of the sp-ace of the Wagner Electric Business, ofSt. Louis, in Section 9. is occupied by the different applications ofsingle-phase alternating-existing motors. This consists of the standardform, enclosed, semi-enclosed and back-geared varieties, from }4 to 35hp. The notable function of these motors is their beginning below
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Image from page 150 of “Life in a tank” (1918)
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Title: Life in a tank
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Haigh, Richard, b. 1895
Subjects: Globe War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company
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ajor, who had been standing on the edgeof the field, walked forward to inspect. Every morning was spent in this manner,except for those who had unique courses tofollow. We devoted all our time and attentionto Forming Fours in as ideal a manner aspossible to saluting with the greatest accuracyand fierceness and to unwearying repetitionof each and every movement and detail, until machine-like precision was attained. All that we had been performing then is the veryfoundation and essence of good discipline. Dis-cipline is the state to which a man is trained,in order that beneath all situations he shallcarry out with no secondary reasoning anyorder that may possibly be given him by a superior.There is nothing of a servile nature in this formof obedience. Each man realizes that it is forthe great of the entire. By putting his implicitconfidence in the commands of 1 of a higherrank than his own, he gives an earnest of hisability to himself command at some futuretime. It is but an additional proof of the old adage, 124
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Rest and Discipline that the man who obeys least is the least fittedto command. When this war began, specific large forma-tions, with the sheer lust for fighting in theirblood, did not, although being formed, understand theabsolute necessity of unending drill and in-spection. Their initial cry was, Give us arifle, a bayonet, and a bomb, show us how touse them, and we will do the rest. Actingupon this concept, they flung themselves into bat-tle, disregarding the iron guidelines of a preliminarytraining. At first their extremely impetus and cour-age carried them more than incredible obstacles.But after a time, and as their ideal had been killedoff, the original blaze died down, and the steadyflame of ingrained discipline was not thereto take the place of burning enthusiasm. Theterrible waste and useless sacrifice that ensuedshowed only also plainly that even the wonderful-est person bravery is not sufficient. In this modern day warfare there are several trialsand experiences unimagined just before, whichwear down the actual will-pow
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Image from web page 561 of “American engineer” (1912)
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Title: American engineer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad automobiles
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
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anager should give it their endorsement and ap-proval. Guys are fast to notice whether a new plan is backedor not, and human nature is such that, without proper backing,the greatest technique might fail via neglect to conscientiously fol-low its principles. As we view it this system forces everyone to do his duty.The man in authority who desires a method which will force each-physique else to do his duty but leave him free of charge to do as he pleasesis as well often evident such a man could not introduce this systemsuccessfully obtaining when endorsed it he also need to reside up to thedates and schedules. Unquestionably this perform will turn into moreand a lot more well-liked in railway repair shops the principles involvedcan be applied to the car shop as to the locomotive shop, andto the small or tbe big shop. High SPEED METAL CUTTINGMACHINE A machine using a flat saw blade which will reduce via a 6in. diameter bar of machinery steel in 20 minutes, or througha 12 in. I-beam in ten minutes, leaving a face whicli is true and
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High Speed Metal Saw. October, 1912. AMERICAN ENGINEER. 541 square, is getting built by the Racine Tool & Machine Firm,Racine Junction, Wis. It is a improvement of a power hack sawcarricil to a point where it becomes a tool of precision and canbe classed witli other high grade machine tools. Even though it usesa saw blade, the frame carrying it is remarkably rigid and iscarried by a support, so designed as to avert any possibilityor tendency for movement outdoors of the accurate vertical plane.The cutting is performed by the draw stroke and the blade islifted clear on the return stroke. A geared circulating pump ap-plies a cutting compound to the blade whilst in operation, allow-ing it to be run efficiently at high speed. The macliinc consists of a substantial base on wliicli is mountedthe vise for carrying the perform and the frame carrying the driv-ing mechanism. The vise is arranged to swivel at any angle upto 45 deg., and has a capacity for cutting an 11 in. bar at thisangle. The saw fram
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