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Boyden Sparkes. Life of an American Workman
Life of an American Workman
Table of Contents
•I•
BACKGROUND OF MY BOYHOOD
"You Had To Be a Tough Kid"
•II•
AMBITIONS OF AN APPRENTICE
"Tools Were What I Wanted"
•III•
JOURNEYS OF A ROUNDHOUSE MECHANIC
"I Knew The Answer To My Lonesomeness"
•IV•
A CHANCE MEETING IN CHICAGO
"I Spent Four Days Hanging Around The Show"
•V•
EXPERIMENTS WITH HORSE-POWER
"What a Job I Could Do Here"
•VI•
CONFLICTS IN A NEW CAREER
"Full Authority Is What I Want"
•VII•
MEN, MOTORS, AND MY WIFE
"I Will Go Back To Work"
•VIII•
REWARDS FOR A WORKMAN
"They Knew This Car Was a Sensation"
A POSTSCRIPT
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Boyden Sparkes
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The first tool I made was a little pair of calipers; spread to their limit, they could measure a diameter of four inches. They were copied from a pair belonging to another fellow in the shop. I made other things as need of them arose. One of the mechanics allowed me to look through a catalogue he had received from a big tool firm in the East. In there was a picture and a description of a depth gauge.
I had never heard of such a thing; there were none in the shop. When we had to measure the depth of a hole in a piece of metal, we explored the hole with a wire, marked it with a fingernail and then applied the wire to a ruler. Maybe such a measurement would be right to a sixteenth of an inch; nowadays we work in ten-thousandths of an inch.
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