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Henry Ford:My Life and Work, Excerpt 58
Henry Ford《My Life and Work》· Chapter V · Leadership
We used to rivet the crank-case arms to the crank-case, using pneumatic hammers which were supposed to be the latest development. It took six men to hold the hammers and six men to hold the casings, and the din was terrific. Now an automatic press operated by one man, who does nothing else, gets through five times as much work in a day as those twelve men did.
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