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1938 CONNECTICUT magazine article, people industry history etc color photos

$ 4.65

Availability: 23 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: Used
  • Type: magazine article

    Description

    Selling is a 1938 magazine article about:
    CONNECTICUT
    Title: CONNECTICUT, PRODIGY OF INGENUITY
    Author: Leo A. Borah
    Subtitled "Factories Play a Symphony of Industry Amid Colonial Scenes in the State of Steady Habits”
    Quoting the first page “In front of the State Trade School on Washington Street, Hartford, is Evelyn Beatrice Longman's statue of the Workman Inventor.
    It is not a large monument, but one of remarkable significance.
    Sleeves rolled up, hammer at side, fine head bowed over plans spread out on the knees, that bronze figure symbolizes enterprise, resourcefulness, and ingenuity-strikes the keynote of the industrial symphony that is Connecticut.
    When I first saw the statue, I did not appreciate its true meaning. After going about the State for a few days and seeing some of the marvels of machine production, I began to understand the importance to the Commonwealth of the workman inventor who made these things possible.
    Connecticut is amazing. To the newcomer not well trained in mechanics it is a land of sheer magic. Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee could not have bewildered the citizens of King Arthur's Court more utterly than modern Connecticut manufacturers bewildered me.
    From a Hartford plant making watch screws of the size of a dust speck hardly visible to the naked eye to an Ansonia factory that fashioned a rubber belt press weighing a half million pounds, I went in open-mouthed wonder at the miracles brought by Yankee ingenuity.
    I saw unattended machines turning out in rapidly moving, constant streams pieces of work each of which, if made by hand, would occupy a skilled craftsman for hours. Long strips of brass fed into one device came out a moment later metamorphosed into finished switches of incredible intricacy. The operators merely supplied the metal and kept the mechanism in order.
    In a Hartford plant machines were carving airplane propellers out of roughly shaped slabs of an alloy metal. I walked for perhaps a hundred yards alongside the cutters, shapers, and polishers, observing the processes in two parallel rows. At the end of the line propellers from the two separate sets of machines were laid on the pans of a fine balance scale. The indicator stood at exact center! If a cigarette paper was laid on one of the propellers, the balance was destroyed.
    A machine in a Waterbury plant was shearing even strips off a sheet of metal as one would trim a page of paper along a straightedge with a pair of scissors.
    "Stick your finger in the notch," said the man who was showing me around the plant. I put my hand behind me. With a laugh he thrust his own finger between the rapidly moving cutters-rubbed it back and forth. Nothing happened! The knives were set to cut eighth-inch metal; they could not touch an object as thick as a person's finger!
    Spellbound, I watched Jacquard looms in Manchester weave into satin cloth lovely…"
    7” x 10”, 48 pages, 25 B&W & 25 color photos, plus map
    These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1938 magazine.
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