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Boatswain's Mate, Coxswain, Quartermaster, Signalman, Seaman, First & Second Class, Radioman, Carpenter's Mate, Shipfitter, Boilermaker, Electrician's Mate, Fireman, Yeoman, Storekeeper, Ships Cook and Machinist's Mate...
Engineering drawing is necessary not only for the draftsman but also for the shopman or machinist if he is to read the engineer's plans easily and intelligently. A mechanic or machinist trained in drafting and structural visualization has a great advantage over the ordinary mechanic, according to Walsh...
...trained as a babbitter, boring-mill operator, die maker and machinist was running a sewage plant...
Breakdown. His plan, already fact in many factories: break down jobs and training to simpler operations. E.g., although it takes two years to train a machinist, an unskilled hand can be taught to run a lathe (a machinist's first lesson) in six to eight weeks at school. Then he graduates to a factory, begins at once to produce on his lathe. Thereafter he progresses, under instruction from a factory foreman and in night school, to drill press, shaper, planer, grinder, milling and screw machine. Advantages of this system: 1) training is much faster, 2) trainees produce while they...
Slow-spoken Homer Price was orphaned at eleven, at 16 went to work as a machinist. During World War I he machined for the U.S. Navy; after the Armistice he got his job at the Pen. Because his wife and daughter were interested in outboard motor racing, Homer Price in 1923 bought a bench drill press and lathe, installed them in his dining room, made parts for outboard motors which he sold commercially. (That is how the Cleveland Pump people heard about him.) His wife "is more at home in a machine shop than in a kitchen...