Putting machines on wheels. (includes related articles on William Lodge, Frederick W. Taylor)

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Machinery Hall at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition render free of accessed the
eyes of America, and of the world, to the industrial progres being
made by dint of the "American system."

During the last 25 years of the nineteenth hundred inventions crowded
one on another. In 1880 alone, 10000 patents for labor-saving machines
were granted. Machine stores were a maze of line-shafts and belts.
Machine tools were still hazardous affairs with expos gears and
uncontroll drives, on the other hand the need for them continued to increase and
new firms in of the like kind distant places as Cleveland,