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Identifier: seeningermany00bakerich (find matches)
Title: Seen in Germany
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
Subjects: Germany -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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iron pins in the holes of thefloor. When the signal is given, the furnace doorbursts open, emitting a blinding glare of light andfervid heat. A single dark figure, black against theglow, grapples with huge pincers in the furnacemouth ; the workmen, but a moment before standinginert and lax of muscle, now bend their shoulders toa hawser, and the bar of metal, so hot that its edgesbear no definite outline, is dragged forth. With in-finite deftness and fearlessness, with swiftness and yetwithout hurry, this flaming bar is crowded againstthe pegs of the curve, the workmen smiting it withhammers, driving other pegs, straining at levers, andsmiting again. Once the steel wrinkled, in bending,like a blotting-pad, as if reluctant to submit. Abrawny giant, his face glowing from the upward glare ofthe metal and dripping with perspiration, drove downupon it with a great sledge until it was flattenedagain into submission. In two minutes time a simpleL of iron had become a ships rib, curving in the
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Bending a S/ii/>s Rib 258 Seen in Germany shape of the hull and ready for service except forrivet-holes. In ways just as fascinating the steel plates which areto form the outer skin of the ship are fashioned.They come from the rolling mills of Westphalia orfrom England in the form of square or rectangularplates of varying thickness; and they must be bentand trimmed to the necessary shapes to fit the ship.Here is a pair of enormous rollers of steel like therollers of a laundresss wringer. Between thema plate of steel as large as two dining-tables is fed,leaving part of it sticking straight out. At just theproper moment, a third roller rises from below,pushed upward by the resistless force of hydraulicpressure. When it reaches the plate, we start back,expecting to see the cold steel snap like glass ; butinstead it bends upward as easily as though it werepasteboard, until it is almost L-shaped. Then thenoiseless but mighty roller that has done the workslips back again. Such is the qua

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