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Identifier: mindhandmanualtr01hamc (find matches)
Title: Mind and hand: manual training the chief factor in education
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ham, Charles Henry, 1831-1902. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Manual training. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s.—The Ante-room of the Machine-tool Laboratory.—Chipping and Filing.—TheFile-cutter.—The Poverty of Words as compared with Things.—The Graduating Project.—The Vision of the Instructor. The transition from the laboratories for founding andforging to the Machine-tool Laboratory symbolizes amighty revolution in the practical arts—a revolution sostupendous as to defy description, and so far-reaching asto appall the spirit of prophecy. The foundery and thesmithy date back to the dawn of history; the machine-tool shop is a creation of yesterday. About the earlymanipulations of iron mythology wove a web of fancy:Yulcan forged Joves thunderbolts, the iron sword ofthe savage was a god, and even far down the course oftime, late in the Middle Ages, Tancred, the crusader, paidan almost fabulous sum for King Arthurs famous swordExcalibar^but the modern machine-tool shop is a hugeiron automaton, without sentiment, and possessing nopoetry except the rhythmic harmony of motion. In this
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THE MACHINE-TOOL LABORATORY. 81 shop steam is reduced to servitude, and coraj)elled withgiant hands to bore, mortise, plane, polish, fashion, andfit great masses of iron, and, anon, with delicate fingersto spin gossamer threads of burnished steel. With thehot steam coursing through its steel-ribbed veins thebrain of this automaton thinks the thoughts foreordainedby its inventor; its hands do his bidding, its arms fetchand carry for him, its feet come and go at his beckand nod. This automaton feeds on iron, steel, copper,and brass, and produces the watch-spring and the loco-motive, the revolver and the Krupp gun, the surgeonslancet and the shaft of a steamship, the steel pen and thesteam-hammer, the vault-lock and the pile-driver, thesewing-machine and the Corhss engine. The lever whichwakens this automaton to life, which endows its brainwith genius and its fingers with cunning, is the rod ofempire. All the lines of modern development convergein the machine-tool shop, and they are all

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