A GERMAN OPINION OF AMERICAN SKILL.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2824, 4 March 1878, Page 2

A GERMAN OPINION OF AMERICAN SKILL.

Professor Beuleaux, of Berlin, generally regarded as the first'of .mechanical engineers in Germany, if not in Europe, and a man also of broad accomplishments and excellent judgment in other, brunches of industry and art, has just published in book form a series of letters vpon the industrial position of the United States, written during a visit to the, Centennial Exposition last year*. in which he ssyi the wealth of America in oeal andiron v anch as Europe furnishes no parallel for. In regard to machinery, it is frankly admitted that the United States has begun to occupy "one of the, places in the first rank, in some respects the very first." In tool making, especially, they "carry away the palm, not only at the Exhibition, but seemingly everywhere." To this complimentary summing up Professor Beuleaux joint an enumeration of the specific excellencies which distinguish American tools, which have got far beyond German products in this line, and have even "hurled the English out of the saddle." In this connection particular reference is made to American weaving machines, machines for working in wood, labor-saving machines of all sorts, and especially to printing presses. Of the future development of the Americans in industry and art, he maintains that there can be no doubt, because they have education, great mechanical skill, know how to use machinery to advantage, and have natural resources far superior to anything known in Europe.