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...David Buick (then 46) was a partner in the Detroit plumbing concern of Buick & Sherwood. At that time, Henry Ford was a machinist. R. E. Olds was making his first experiments with the Oldsmobile. Novel was the theory that a gasoline motor could furnish better transportation power than the horse. But Mr. Buick saw the future of the motor car. He sold his Buick & Sherwood interest...
...bakelite, mica, rubber, their combinations and what not. Carboloy or widia does everything that the finest, hardest tool steel can do, and many another job. Also they cut at much faster speeds. So efficient are they in stepping up machine shop production and in reducing shop costs, that every machinist must use the new metal, even though its present price is $500 a pound, almost the price of platinum, almost twice the price of gold...
...those days, 35 years ago, a machinist had to know not only how to use his tools but how to make them, if necessary. Mechanical engineering became young Walt Chrysler's life, not his profession. After a year he was able to make the model steam engine which he still shows to his friends. When he was earning 7½? per hour he wanted a shotgun; so he made that...
Interested, Lawyer Perky tried the boiled wheat, liked it, found it readily digestible. He realized, however, that the average breakfaster would not find boiled wheat particularly palatable, would not go to the trouble of breaking it with a spoon. So he consulted a machinist and worked out a process for drawing the cooked wheat into shreds, forming the shreds into loaves, and baking the loaves in coal ovens. After peddling his biscuits in baskets around Lincoln, Neb. and Denver, Col., Mr. Perky acquired some money, moved to Worcester, Mass., started a Shredded Wheat factory...
Lonesome (Glenn Tryon)?A young machinist meets a telephone girl on the beach among a lot of camera tricks...