New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-09-28

Queer Things About the Watch,
The jewelers. Review has the follow
ing interesting facts concerning that
wonderful little mechanism the
watch
Open your watch and look at the lit
tie wheels, springs and screws, each an
indispensable part of the whole won.
derful machine. Notice the busy little
balance wheel as it flies to and fro un-
ceasingly, day and night, year in and
year out. This wonderful little ma
chine is the result ofhundreds OF years
OF study and experiment.
The watch carried by the average
man is composed Of ninety-eight
pieces, and it's manufacture embraces
more than 1000 distinct and sepa-
rate operations Some of the small
est screws are 80 minute that the un-
aided eyes cannot distinguish them
from steel filings or specks of dirt.
Under q powerful magntfying glass q
perfect screw is revealed. The slit in
the head is 2-1OOOths OF an inch wide.
1t takes 5O8,OOO OF these screws to
weigh a pound, and q pound is worth
81, 5S5. .-... =.-...
The handspring is a strip of the
finest steel about 9K inches long,
l-1ooth inch wide and 27-1o,ooOths
inch thick; It is coiled up in spiral
form and finely tempered. The pro-
cess OF tempering these springs was
long hold as a secret by the few for
tunate ones possessing it, and even
now is not generally known. Their
manufacture requires great skill and
care. .sr.@
The strip is gagged to 20-1OOths Of
an inch, but no measuring instrument
has as yet been devised capable OF
fine enough gauging to determine be-
forehand by the size of the strip what
the strength of the finished spring will
be, A 2O-1GOth part of an inch diff
ference in the thickness of the strip
makes a difference lin the running of a
watch of about six minutes per hour
The value OF these springs, when
finished and placed in watches, is
enormous in proportion to the ma
A comparison will give good idea.
A ton of steel made up into hair
springs when in watches is worth
more than twelve and one-half times
CHE value OF the same weight in pure
told.
handspring wire weighs one-tWen-
tieth OF a grain to the inch. One mile
OF wire Weighs less than half pound.
The balance gives five vibrations
every second, 800 every minute,
$4,000 every hour, $4,000 every
day, and l57,68O,0OO every year.
At each vibration it rotates about
one and one-fourth times which
makes 1877, 100000 revolutions
every year.
In order that we may better under
stand the stupendous amount of
LABOR performed by these tiny works,
let us make a few comparisons.
Take, forillustration, a locomotive,
with 6-foot driving-wheels. Let it's
wheels be run until they have given
the same number of revolutions that
a watch does in one year, and they
will have covered distance equal to
twenty eight complete circuits of the
earth. All this a, watch does, with
out other attention than winding
once in every twenty-four hours.
a Careless Boy.
Mrs. Boggs Little Johnny has
lost his knife, and I was think
ing"
AIr. Boggs What? Has that boy
lest another knife? It's outrageous!
Here / am Shaving myself to death
to support my family, and every
thing going to rack and ruin; That
was a good knife, and it's a..shame 2
Mrs. Boggs- 81 was thinking my
dear, that as I have found six or
eight knives that YOU have lost, you
might give him one of them"
It is never wise to overcrowd poul-
try Fifty hens in an overcrowded
house, says an exchange, will not lay
as many eggs as twenty-five that are
not crowded, and they will eat twice
l. q W