Stories by Edwin Laird Cady

Industrial Standards Can and Will Give the Whole World a Better Standard of Living. But Complete International Co-Operation Must be Gained Before Such Standardization Can be Fully Realized. Industry Faces Many and Diversified Problems in the Process

By Control of the Pressure, Temperature, and Turbulence of Quenching Mediums, Engineers Have Made it Possible to Predict, With High Accuracy, the Exact Amount that Metals Will be Distorted by Heat Treatment. Through Use of these Methods, Machining Time Can be Reduced

Attention to Important Details Assures that Instruments, Machinery, and so on, Will Reach Their Destinations Undamaged, Mechanically or by Corrosion. Product Protection for Many Items is More Necessary Today than Ever Before. Many Problems Must be Studied and Solved

Plain Water, Water-and-Oil Mixtures, and Straight Oils All Have Helped to Speed Machining Processes and Make Them More Accurate. Every Time Tool Materials Changes Seemed to Point to the Possibility of Eliminating Cutting Oils from the Machine, It Was Found that Better Work Could be Accomplished by Keeping Them on the Job

Machines That Make Other Machines Have Progressed Rapidly During the War, Yet the Immediate Future Will Demand Continuing Supplies of New Tools. What Improved Machine Tools Mean to Industry and What May be Expected of Them in the Light of New Knowledge

Wire-Recording Equipment and Other Electronic Instruments are Giving New Ears to Factory Men. New Accuracies in Machine and Process Industries, Made Possible by Studying and Comparing Noises, Are Speeding Production, Improving Quality, and cutting Costs

With New Markets in Sight, Electric Motor Manufacturers are Bringing Out New Motors That are Proof Against Practically All Industrial Hazards. They Will Operate Under Formerly Impossible Conditions and Will Give Better Service With Less Servicing and Greater Profit

A Series of Pincers Attacks by Mechanical Engineers and Metallurgists Has Resulted in High-Speed Copper Machining, Better Band Saws, Tougher Cams, Improved Metallizing Methods, and a Number of Other Industrially Important Developments--And the End Is Not Yet in Sight

Our Armed Forces Needed Containers That Could With stand Immersion in Salt Water and Pass Unscathed Through The Rough-and-Tumble of Battle. To Meet This Need the Industry Pooled its Knowledge and Trade Secrets. The New Weather-Proof Packaging Will Have Many Uses After The War

By Reviewing the History of Mechanical Engineering and Its Effects on the Industrial Era of Today, a Background is Established Against Which Many of the Possiisbilities of the Future Can Be Evaluated

Chains of Control, Developed Through Constant Research Result in Better Products. Made Faster and at Lower Cost. All Industrial Production Men Have a Stake in This Important Phase of Mechanical Engineering to Which Teamwork Holds the Key. How Plant Safety is Increased

Factory Power Transmissions, Once Great Accident Producers, are Now Among the Safest Things in the Shop. Further, They are Quieter, More Efficient, More Accurately Controllable than Ever Before. They Absorb Vibration and Shocks Protecting Machines and Power Sources Alike

When Concrete is Precast Rather than Cast in Place, it is Possible to Accurately Control Many Desirable Qualities. In Addition, Standardized Forms Are Available Which Can be Quickly and Easily Pat to Use. Concrete Products Can be Made on a Production-Line Basis

Will these Simple and Potentially Efficient Power Plants Out-Mode Steam, Gasoline, and Diesel Engines Overnight? What are the Fundamental Reasons Why the Gas Turbine, Based on Four Centuries of Thinking, is Only Now Emerging from the Dream Stage? A Searching Analysis Gives the Answers

Fire Losses Do Not All Appear in the Statistics. Small and Unreported Fires are Quickly Controlled With Portable Equipment. But the Right Kind Must be at Hand at the Right Time, and Employees Must Know How to Use it. Water is still a Good All-Around Extinguishant

Statistics Show that While Much Has Been Done to Reduce Industrial Accidents There is Still a Long Way to Go. Codes and Standards Are Snarling Points. Small Plants Must Be Brought Abreast of the Practices of the Large Ones if the Average is to Brought Up

Millionth-Inch Tolerances on the Production Line. Progress in Measurement Methods and Tools Has Been so Great That Even the Smallest Plant Can Afford Ihe Equipment Necessary for Turning Out Products with an Accuracy Undreamed of in Manufacturing Processes of a Few Years Ago

Costs Go Down, Production Goes Up, When Materials-Handling Problems are Correctly Solved. Management Thinking is Changing and is Placing Emphasis on this Vital Phase of Industry. Exact Control Achieved While Maintaining Flexibility and Adaptability of Equipment

Many Processes Can be Carried Out More Accurately, Faster, More Efficiently, When Immediate Temperatures are Kept Within a Predetermined Range. This Type of Temperature Control, Often Correlated With General Plant Air-Conditioning, is Being Adopted By a Number of Varied Industries

Originating Without as Well as Within the Plant, Industrial Dusts Represent Hazards to Production Processes and to Personnel Alike. These Dusts Present Problems that Science Has Answered in Many Ways, Depending on he Individual Factors Involved