The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1903-02-26

"Iy admitted that the approaching in
|lStrlal supremacy OF the United
6'LatcS Is largely due to the introduce
III OF laDor- saving machinery, and if
lY person cOnvcrSant with the whole
sid of timc-Saving and labor-suviug
DplianccS were to-day asked to indi-
tie the liEe OF activity in which these
.Dor-Saying appliances and automatic
"lachincs may he seen in their highest
al most wonderful development, he
'ill unhcSltatinGly suggest watch
taking rs carried on at one Of the big
american factories which are now
applying Il large part OF the world
18th timepicCcs.
In the oldcn days watches were
'lndc almost exclusively by hand, and,
1dccd, they are SO constructed i'll Eu-
oDc to-day. 1t was Yankee genius
which evolved the idea of applying
machinery to watch manufacture This
'adical innovation was first introduced
~ Il Boston matchmaker named Den
uiSon, about the middle of the last
century. The theory which the New
England maker of watches conceived
and which he ultimately carried out
successfully was that special machines
HllSnl DC SNbSlllultNl lOI HU'Ilstll Shlll
and insure such uniformity Of product
that the different parts Of the vat tcllrS
manufactures would lie virtually in.
tcrchangablc.
DEVELOPMENT or MACHINERY.
The Development OF this idea has
gone on and expanded until now one
finds in the great watch factory dozens
OF different machines which with fin
gers of iron h and steel pick up the
various crUAp materials such ,iS brass.
nickel and steel. cut into the desired
forms and. passing it from tool To tool
and machin" to machine. finally &c.
post il. almost without human aid. as
Il completed watch. IN the up-to.d:,tc
factories literally The only purposes Of
the men and women who find employ
mcnt there Is to supply In" raw maj
:crial to the automatic machines and
'rccivc the finished article which they
roducc. 1t is by the introduction Of
hose novel machines tha, it has hr"n
cndcrcd possible for Il present day
latch factory to turn out 300 watches
very working day of the year.
AN ARMY OF EMPLOYEES
10 Illustrate i'll Il striking manner
hat tremendous advance Uncle
am h,s m,ir IN n,torn,,i.;r,, - ,,.
., noininL o,, th,, in :, li,- I,n,ri,.,r
ciorv ,vhor, ,hnrc ,.,, o,,n1,,nI rn,,
orlv loo ,v,m,n ,nd sun mon nm
'craSc Of more than Il watch 4 day
turned out by each employee, while
old-faShiOnrd European watch
akcr requires nearly three months to
o,I,cc ono hirh...r,,, ,v,tch IN
p. orcss of rn,nufocturc ooch watch in
tourney through the Factory trny
NOR, ,i,nn two miles T,nn ordinary
otch is mudc uD of $50 scparotc
,ccs and tu fashion those ip1o y
,rDicra rcuuircS exactly 3IIJO dis
rct orcra,ions,
In thr m,nu,uct,;r of y,fchrs rrrot
trntion is dryotcl tO thr nillnr and
~ nlnirs rrhr y,rio,s members Of
,r "moyrmrut" Of y watch arr car
cd upou Orlicotc stool nylrS which
uyc u niyo1ul hearing in two platcs
nowu ns thr pillov nlotc and ton u],tc
n tho better GRADES of movements th,
earrings consist Of Jewels srf in these
latcs with such cxac,pcss that ,he
margin between the pivo,s and the
cwcls is scnrcciv onc-onc-thouSnudth
III II.
he pillar and top plates como from
he mills as pieces OF shcc: brass or
lickcl and these plates are faced on
Doth sides hy means OF an automatic
machine. The ingenious feature oG
this mechanical worker is found in
the fact that at The outset ut least 100
blank punchin@S are placed in 4 ma@a-
zine which feeds them automatically
rs rapidly rs they arc needed, while
another magazine at thc opposite end
OF the machine receives the plates
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