100 Materials and Their Handling 



the comfort and convenience and, in many cases, 

 the very lives of thousands depend upon the con- 

 tinued care, accuracy, and skill shown in the per- 

 formance of that work. 



In developing the man it is necessary that his 

 interest should be retained and enlarged, and this 

 can be done only when the usefulness of the work 

 is thoroughly understood by him. Most men are 

 proud of their own work, and they like to think 

 of its usefulness. If you can develop their knowl- 

 edge in this respect, you will develop their interest 

 and they will see their work in a way that they 

 have never seen it before. 



Multiplying the Results. The whole develop- 

 ment of modern industry has been based upon mul- 

 tiplying the results. In other words, this is the 

 arranging to secure, within a given space of time 

 and by means of a given amount of labor, a larger 

 number of pieces or products or a greater volume 

 of results. 



For instance, the old fashioned drill press, 

 which they used in the factory when I was a boy, 

 had a hand feed and one spindle and a capacity 

 for only a limited variation in the size of the bit. 

 It took a lot of time to drill fifteen or twenty 

 holes in a plate. The table was not very large, 

 the device for gripping the plate left much to the 

 discretion of the operator, and to drill all those 

 holes in proper alignment, with no variation, was 

 a job which required time and patience and skill. 

 If the plate was a long one, it had to be reset 



