JOSIAS CHRISTOPHER GAMBLE 6l 



were not to be obtained, the master had to 

 train his men in every grade of service, new 

 inventions multiplied themselves, and com- 

 petitive jealousies brought about lamentable 

 and destructive struggles for supremacy. 



Gamble did not take opposition lightly ; 

 indolence, stupidity, and neglect irritated him 

 intensely, he threw himself heart and soul 

 into his work, and he expected others to do 

 the same. 



The striking feature in the life of Josias 

 Christopher Gamble is the contrast which his 

 career presents to that of manufacturers in 

 the present day. They start after having 

 received a good scientific training in their 

 youth. Technology then was an unknown 

 science, now a competent technologist means 

 a man who has a fair all-round knowledge of 

 natural science, knowing something of geology, 

 mineralogy, and even botany. He must be 

 a fair mechanic, and he must be a good 

 chemist ; in addition to this, he must be able 

 to read with ease scientific works in French 

 and German, but in Gamble's early days no 

 such instruction could be obtained, the manu- 

 facturer had but a smattering knowledge of 

 the science of his subject, he had to tread an 



