Note.—The author desires to express his thanks to the National Cash Register Company for the kind help given him in the shape of materials for writing and illustrating this chapter.
FOOTNOTE:
[4.] Industrial Biographies, chap. xiii.
By permission of The Sphere.
The jacket of a 12-inch gun being turned in a monster lathe at Messrs. Vickers Maxim's works. Notice the long spiral strip coming off the edge of the cutting tool.