This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: … In the manufacture of small-arms, … 1 man individually turns out and fits the equivalent of 42 to 50 stocks in 10 hours as against 1 stock in the same length of time by manual labor, a displacement of 44 to 49 men in this one operation. In brick-making improved devices displace 10 per cent, of the labor, while in manufacturing fire-brick 40 per cent, has been displaced. The manufacture of boots and shoes offers some very wonderful facts in this connection. In one large and longestablished manufactory in one of the Eastern states the proprietors testify that it would require 500 persons working by hand processes to make as many women’s boots and shoes as 100 persons now make with the aid of machinery, a displacement of 80 per cent…. Goodyear’s sewing machine for turned shoes, with 1 man, will sew 250 pairs in 1 day. It would require 8 men working by hand to sew the same number. By the use of King’s heel-shaver or trimmer 1 man will trim 300 pairs of shoes a day, where it formerly took 3 men to do the same. One man with the McKay machine, can handle 300 pairs of shoes per day, while, without the machine, he could handle but 5 pairs in the same time. In nailing on heels, by the use of machinery, 1 man and a boy can heel 300 pairs of shoes per day. It would require 5 men to do this by hand. In finishing the bottoms of shoes, 1 man with a sand-papering machine can handle 300 pairs, while it would require 4 men to do the same by hand. The broom industry has felt the influence of machinery, the broom-sewing machine facilitating the work to such an extent that each machine displaces three men. One large broom-manufacturing concern, in 1879, employed seventeen skilled men to manufacture 500 dozen brooms per week. In 1885, with nine men and…
