The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-16

Vow said he, ~you may note that It
takes 100000 of these screws TO weigh
pound, aud that they are worth from $1,000
TO $500 a pound
Again, they showed me microscopic bit
of steel, the poiuts of which, under a glass,
appeared 20 be exdusitely polished.
took up a couple Of screws and the ball
ance-stafT by wetting my finger, aud put
them carefully into piece Of paper. &
Not that ! wish 10 make you think that
YOU are taking valuable property said the
manager 'buthow much do you suppose
that stuff is worthy'
The foreman made the calculation.
,1hcy are worth S200OD pound he
said, .or about % cents piece. The screws
are worth dollar and quarter huudred,
It takes fifty-two ofthem TO weigh grain "
"Weli.n said |, "if they cost so much,
how do YOU make watches so cheapw
"The use of machinery, TO It's utmost
limit, and the division Of labor as far rs
possible accounts for all reiolned the
manager. Every machine In the factory
does one thing only, and II can do nothing
else But itdoes that one thing incessantly,
with incredible rapidity, and unvarymg
accuracy. Thus. all our watches Of one
style are precisely alike In all their parts.
IL Is imperative that the watch should be
entirely made in Il single factory and under
one superintendent. Now foreign watches
tile cheaper sOrt-can have only relative
similarity. They are made III parts every
where, and get together in Geneva and
Paris and London. There are not u score
of Partisan watches made In Paris any
year The pieces are made I'm the rural
districts of Switzerland, and they are sent
on to Paris to be fitted together Many of
the English watches are made In the same
way-ready manufactured on the contl-
nent and put up In London. There Is no
great watch factory anywhere, except ours.
where all the processes are conducted and
the movements adjusted under the same
roof We produce greater number Of
watches than any other establishment in
the world
Are you quite sure ?" asked. that this
is the largest factory In the world?n
There is no question of it, the manager
replied, "and what is more. | am told we
made more watches in Waltham last year
than were made in all England"
FAIRY WORKSHOPS.
This is the press room. Its filled with
presses, punches, dies, and rolling and slit
ting machines Here long. thin ribbons
of steel are passed under die, which de-
scends with n regular motion, and cuts ont
u balance wheel at every blow.
In the next room, the blanks-as the
rough pieces are called-are prepared for
II
about three-fOurths OF an inch across, and
three-siXteenths of an inch thick 1t is
put on a lathe. Round aud round it spins
with great velocity, rubbing its rough
edges against n series of immovable sharp
tools which polish Off its coarsness; make
it thin and smooth; turn out Il chamber for
the main spring drill hole In the center
to receive the barrel arbor, and turn n
tiange on the outer edge in which the teeth
| q rf 4 1. l. Ia,
faster than you or | could describeait in
short hand. This machine sets itself.
The barrel is now taken to the dentists
to have its teeth cut. 1t is placed in posi-
tion. Quickly a little chisel spins on a
cylinder, cut, cut, cutting as It ''swings
round the circle;' and presently its sixty
| teeth are iinished-all exactly uniform and
equi-distant. This cutter is sapphire
ground down to the proper size and form
by diamond dust and oil, and then fastened
into Il little wheel or disk. No other ma
terial could stand the wear and tear of eat
ing all day long into this hard brass and
steel.
| Here, in another room, little machine is
| splitting out screws, so small that YOU can
not see their threads.
| What you do see at the first glance is a
thin thread of steel, finer than the most del
lcate of pins, slowly pushing its way
ing grasped by tiny tool which run,
round it, rs If embracing it; and then
presto! change! out comes knife and cut,
off its head. Alt this Is done so quickly thai
you have to wait and watch the operation
qtter you know what it is all about before
YOU can see the process | have described
The bits thus beheaded with hug look eN.
actly like little grains OF powder But they
are screws. You notice that wlieu YOU take
| a miprngpnnn
complete-dlmoSt. Notquite yet. The cir
picks them up, one By one. with dainty
tool, and places them In rows one In every
hole, in Nat piece of steel. This little
plate, rs soon rs it is filled, is placed under
another machine. and itwould do any Irish.
! mans soul good to see 10 work. It beat,
Donneybrook Fair "all hollow" | haC
never more convincing proof of the su.
periority of the mechanical over the man.
ual labor, For while good hearty mal
with stout bit of shillelah may break hal
Il dozen heads of a day,-with fair luck
this machine, without rs much as sayinI
by your lave" comes out of its hole, AM
runs along each row, quietly splitting til
head of each one of them exactly in the cen
tire. And now the screw is made
just this way is the jewel-room, wit
rubies and sapphires neatly arranged /
, glass Vials, and In another apartment tn
, acclimating process is conducted. Their
, Is something like a large safe built into til
, wall, which is full of little drawers. Pu
i out the one on the right side, and put
: your hand and you feel that the air is no
On the left, the air is icy. Watches Al
first put in the tropical aud then in the arc
tic zones, until they become citizens of III
: world. Then, to accustom them to the vi
:. and downs of practical lite, they are pt
! away in other drawers and tested i'm di
u ferent positions. One stands on its hea
for day when it is suddenly rererset
but no sooner does it become accustomt
IS to that than is is laid Hat on its back.
l examined the watch-case rooms. Ever
n case is composed of more than thirty part
II In the lower rooms bars are melted an
II to be brief-after great variety of pr
e cesses up stairs and down. they are rapid
o turned out, the models OF beauty and el
Y gance that we take TO our homes and o
lie bosOms. The different parts are solder,
= together under little tin French-like roo
is which extend along the benches and pr
vent the room from being begrimed wi
rs smoke. Workmen, after tying two pan
IN together with wires, fuse them by sudden
~ lighting up n tube, almost exactly like
l. snake, which instantly spits out a strea
as of fire, and plays on the detached parts u
Is til they are welded-"now and forever O
and iuseparable."
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