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WATCHMAKING IN AMERICA. 131
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screws so e pound equalled and does . Each b it y to hand machine a gauge . As has which the a particular mechanical ensures an part p exactness rinci of the ple work of that time to cannot - perform keeping be , bf
is the division of a constant force in a given time , y means o perfectl duced a y new adjus order ted mechanism of things ; , not the onl "VValtham of y i watches n the watches exactness it have is of intro work
a t this accuracy establishmen of time t , t but o make in the price as oor work . the As difference as easy in thazL prices the will value mainl within y depend which on the seems g cases a t p and y ornamental democra , tic princi work p rather le for
an American watch . , Three hundred and seventy-five operatives the are It em is p not loyed hundred possible , one and h or undred needful twent parts here twen to ty of g being the ive a watch me women thodical each . requiring detail of
one y , separate ano and th er s the w manufacture ith wh reduced ich the and t differen o the adjustment re t parts uired . are ize In cut an one d out for room m from ; one are brass mac stamps hi ; in - q
so bores on throug the holes y h the , another various form operations s pinions . , The another work shapes is divided pivot di so s , stinct as and to
part secure of the the greatest work , which economy he or and she skill adjusts ; each does to artificer the the machine work has , a and with of
it wonderful For is so ins minute tance rapidit a that y ivot the the with little unaided a iron scarcel eye genius y can discernible see nothing point accomp , is . ad Some lished justed .
by a st the rong operative mag , nifier p with , we , a may pair see of the tweezers machine , and grasp by looking it smoothl and cut throug to chi the ps h
from desired the form bar— and the little size point and — the until li it ttle is inanimate fashioned has a y way of telling just when its task ; is lished . From some of the work
accomp ful steel as shavings a lad ' s are curl rolled and so off diminutive a quarter of as a to yard require in leng five th thousand , as grace to
y , hundred reach across thousand an inch to the . The pound making is certainl of screws y fairy that -like take work one for
its iron lace fingers with to a perform screw driver . And . The each , value of these of the screws steel is in driven the wire to
is one p dollar a pound ; in the screws a thousand dollars . After
Watchmaking In America. 131
WATCHMAKING IN AMERICA . 131
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/59/
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