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May 16, 1844
The Daily Madisonian
Washington, District Of Columbia
What is this article about?
An ingenious machine at a pin manufactory near Derby, Connecticut, sticks 302,460 pins into 90 packs daily, work done by one woman versus 60 in England, with the mechanism a secret.
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OCR Quality
95%
Excellent
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INGENIOUS CONTRIVANCE.—The pin manufactory near Derby, Connecticut, has a contrivance for sticking pins in papers, which is quite marvellous. It takes in England sixty females to stick in one day, by sunlight, ninety packs consisting of 302,460 pins—the same thing is performed here in the same time by one woman. Her sole occupation is to pour them, a gallon at a time, into a hopper, from whence they come out all neatly arranged upon their several papers. The mechanism, by which the labor of fifty nine persons is daily saved, yet remains a mystery to all but the inventor; and no person but the single woman who attends to it, is upon any pretext whatever, allowed to enter the room where it operates.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Extraordinary Event
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Pin Manufactory
Ingenious Contrivance
Labor Saving Machine
Derby Connecticut
Invention Mystery
Where did it happen?
Near Derby, Connecticut
Story Details
Location
Near Derby, Connecticut
Story Details
A pin manufactory near Derby, Connecticut, uses a marvellous contrivance to stick 302,460 pins into 90 packs in one day, operated by one woman pouring pins into a hopper, compared to 60 women in England; the mechanism is secret to all but the inventor.