Showing posts with label manufacturing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manufacturing. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

India Rubber

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1895 A Comparatively Recent but Potent Factor In Science and Progress. In our own day it really seems as if we couldn't possibly get on ...
Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Patents Hatchway Device

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1915 Invention Slides "Strongbacks" Instead of Removing Them Capt. R. T. Anderson of San Francisco, Cal., has been granted a paten...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

A Street Incident and Royalty

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1896 A significant circumstance occurred during a visit of the Emperor of Germany to England. The kaiser was for one day the guest of the lo...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

The Douglas Shoe

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1900 The best advertised and consequently the best known shoe in the world today is undoubtedly made by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co., of Brock...
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

The Uses of Asbestos — A Wonderful Substance

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1896 Being Incombustible, It Is a Valuable Compound in Many Industries Asbestos is a wonderful substance. The name comes from a Greek word m...
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Monday, April 30, 2007

How They Make the Common Sewing Needle

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1909 We are so accustomed to seeing the little steel sewing needle in everyday use that we accept its presence as a matter of course, quite ...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Lover Fell From Tree, Washing Machine Company President

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Cincinnati, 1903 LOVER FELL FROM TREE Andrew Smith Driven to Sore Straits by Teasing. CINCINNATI, March 2 — The ambulance of F. & W. Sie...
Thursday, April 5, 2007

Professor in Rags Talks to Workers

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1920-- Tells Clothing Shop Hands Perils of 40-hour Week BOSTON, Mass., May 20. -- Exhibiting the tattered lining of his coat, Professor Will...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

Auto Engineering Feats

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When the automobile first appeared twenty-five years ago, it was regarded as a mechanical marvel, though it was a very simple and crude affa...