Modern Methods of Welding as Applied to Workshop Practice

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Excerpt from Modern Methods of Welding as Applied to Workshop Practice: Describing Various Methods WE live in a world of wonders. The life of each one of us is, of necessity, so hemmed in by circumstances that none can see much beyond the bounds of his own habitat. We recognise the progress of an industry which comes within our own experience, but we know little of those with which we are not in personal contact. The pressman who clamps the plates on a modern lightning news paper press does not see anything very startling or interesting in the work. The man who pulls levers in the pulpit of a great steelworks is not apt to realise that there has been a marvellous advance in the realm of manufacture. The attendant on a bottle-blowing machine has learned to take his work as a matter of course. It is found through the entire list of trades and occupations. Yet each of these men is at times impressed by the remarkable advances made in some industry other than his own, because such knowledge comes to him, as it were, suddenly, not by the almost imperceptible movement which marks progress in work that is familiar. The means which have brought about industrial development are worth studying. No armed warrior ever sprang full-grown from his cradle, no giant industry has ever come into being in a year or decade. It takes time to develop the machinery and acquaint the world with the advantages of a new aid to manufacture, to commerce, to civilisation, or to human comfort. He who reads this book can hardly fail to be impressed with the idea that no man can measure the possibilities of industrial growth. Who can say that at the close of the twentieth century Darkest Africa may not be under-selling us in our home markets? Who can be sure that with the development of China and the East, there may not come supremacy in industry before which our light shall pale To-day the industry is exceptional in which there has not been an entire alteration and renewal in the machinery within the last few years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.