How Inventions and 

 Machines Speed Up 

 the Work of the Red 

 Cross in New York 



Photos by Courtesy of American Red Cross 



Simplifying Sweaters 

 One day a man got tired watching 

 his wife laboriously knit a sweater. 

 "Too slow, my dear," he said; then 

 went out and made this device. 

 It worked so well that the gratified 

 wife gave it to the Red Cross 



A New Cutting Machine 



Cutting garments for war refugees. 

 In the Red Cross workroom where 

 this electric cutter is used 250,000 

 yards of cloth are cut each month. 

 It will cut through some 200 

 thicknesses of cloth at once 



Making Clothes for Refugees 



Another scene in the Red Ctoss workrooms where 

 garments for war refugees are made. The machine 

 on the left is spreading cloth on ninety-foot tables 

 at the rate of 1 ,000 yards an hour. On the right 

 machines are shown cutting the cloth into garments 



Winding Wool on Bobbins 



A device used in the Red Cross model workroom 

 for winding a hank of wool on bobbins so it can be 

 handled easily when used on knitting machines 



A Measuring Table 



A table laid out in sciuarcs. Red 

 Cross workers can be .sure of mak- 

 ing surgical dressings accoriiing to 

 specifications if they use this tirst- 

 aid chart for correct measurements 



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