Shrapnel and Other War Material (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

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ISBN: 9781330556238
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Excerpt from Shrapnel and Other War Material A Nation depends very largely upon its machine shops for industrial prosperity in time of peace - for machinery building is the basic industry upon which all manufacturing depends. In time of war these same machine shops must produce the materials for defense, a lesson which the Canadian shops have learned to the fullest extent during the past few months. Thus as a patriotic measure, it behooves machine-shop owners and managers to become familiar with the general methods of making munitions of war, and to analyze their own capabilities along these lines if occasion to put them to use should arise. This is not predicting in the slightest degree that the occasion will arise, but advocates a business-like attitude on the part of the machinery-building industries of our country. The adoption of this attitude will eliminate serious delay if the remote possibility should ever become a fact. But entirely aside from this feature of the subject, descriptions of processes that have been developed to produce shells, guns and other war material are of value in themselves. The methods now being used in Canada and the United States are strictly uptodate. Standard automatic machines, and in some cases special automatic machines, are being used. Beyond all this, regular machine-shop equipment has been adapted by developing special holders, fixtures and cutting tools. The inspection system is most rigorous. Limit gages are plentifully used. Not only are many of the dimensions expressed in thousandths or parts of a thousandth of an inch, but the weight of large pieces must be held within a few drams of the fixed standard. Thus from the double viewpoint of meeting a patriotic duty and learning of advanced shop practice the manufacture of war munitions, as set forth in the following pages, deserves careful consideration of everyone engaged in machinery building. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.