. Factory and industrial management. or one man goes around aseam, either caulking or chipping it, as a woman operates a sewingmachine. There is no loafing with the pneumatic tool, for the manhas perforce to keep up with it or willfully to spoil the job. It is literallya time-killer in the best sense of the word, for it walks over the workat a racing pace. In old times the flanger was a great man—bigger than the layer-out—and it was a serious matter to lose him if he took a notion tochange his base; but the flangers task was a simple one to what it isin these days, for it was chiefly straight-
. Factory and industrial management. or one man goes around aseam, either caulking or chipping it, as a woman operates a sewingmachine. There is no loafing with the pneumatic tool, for the manhas perforce to keep up with it or willfully to spoil the job. It is literallya time-killer in the best sense of the word, for it walks over the workat a racing pace. In old times the flanger was a great man—bigger than the layer-out—and it was a serious matter to lose him if he took a notion tochange his base; but the flangers task was a simple one to what it isin these days, for it was chiefly straight-away work, in no wise compar-able to that done upon some kinds of modern l)oilers. The illustrationsopposite, which represent steel plate flanged to the forms required fordetails of the Babcock & Wilcox boiler, illustrate the plasticity of mod-ern steel boiler-plate, and the skill required for its manipulation. Theheader, on the riglit, is ascjuare steel box, formed of one ])late, the holes. MODERN BOILER-MAKIXG PRACTICE. 27.
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