. The War Cry . es required by the plans. be trimmed—a machine performs thisoperation as deftly as a tailor - cutswith lus shears a piece of must be punched full of holes Forrivets—a punching machine does this,ten plates at a time, with the ease of;a railroad : conductor punching tenpaper, tickets, Curved, smoothed,trimmed, and punched, the plates arenext hoisted up to the riveters, andthefi begins a deafening banging andhammering which continues formanymonths,?• while the plates are beingriveted to the ribs. Millions of dou-ble-headed rivets are used, each par-ticular rivet h
. The War Cry . es required by the plans. be trimmed—a machine performs thisoperation as deftly as a tailor - cutswith lus shears a piece of must be punched full of holes Forrivets—a punching machine does this,ten plates at a time, with the ease of;a railroad : conductor punching tenpaper, tickets, Curved, smoothed,trimmed, and punched, the plates arenext hoisted up to the riveters, andthefi begins a deafening banging andhammering which continues formanymonths,?• while the plates are beingriveted to the ribs. Millions of dou-ble-headed rivets are used, each par-ticular rivet having been subjected tothe closest scrutiny of an expert ex-aminer. At this stage of constructionin a wooden vessel, the caulker wouldCome with oakum and tar, filling theinterslices- between the planks. Tnthe .case of a steel-vessel, however, nocaulking, as such, is necessary. Thesharp edge of each plate is turned inwith a chisel, -and so closely then dothe plates meet that water cannotpossibly get
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