MACHINE VERSUS MAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 7 December 1906, Page 2

MACHINE VERSUS MAN .

Under this heading an American writer says: "In Pennsylvania some sheep were shorn and the wool turned into cbthing in six hours four minutes. A steer was killed, its hide tanned, turncid into leather, and made into shoes in twenty-four hours, fhe io,ooo,qoq bottles used by the Standard Oil Company every year are now blown by machinery.' An e-eetric rivettiug machine puts rivets in steel frame buildings at tne ratß or two per minute. Two hundfcti and sixty needles per minute, 10,000,000 match-sticks peir day, 500 garments cut each day—each by ani*chine tended by a little boy. Tffft newest weaving looms run through the dinner hour, and a hour and a half after the factory closes, making cloth, witn no one to tend them at all- The basket machine, invented by Morganthaler, the inventor of the linotype,- is now operating everywhere, making fruit baskets, and berry baskets, and grape baskets of a strength and quality never at), preached by hand labor. a single marine t^fc|g Ula * u ? complete bdrry tiMßrth. rate of 12,000 per day oFnina hours' work! This is at the rate of 1300 per hour, or over twenty baskets a minute I One girl, operating this machine, does the .work of twelve skilled operators!