Word: thousandth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year-old Private Stephen J. Haretik of Cleveland. Sergeant O'Connell's theory: "In this war there is too much written about Zeros shot down and cruisers sunk and not enough about what soldiers think. We've glamorized, a thousand men, but after the thousandth hero the soldier isn't anything to write about; except to his intimates, nothing even to think about...
...indicate a certain weight, signals dit-dah when the needle is under the mark, dah-dit when it is over, buzzzzzzz when it is "on the beam." >Trico Products Corp. of Buffalo has developed a Braille-type micrometer for checking precision instruments, by touch, to one-ten-thousandth of an inch...
...plenty of gears before Sperry came along . . . we thought we were pretty good . . . we showed tolerances of a thousandth of an inch or less, and we thought the first Sperry order was just more of the same. . . . For nearly seven months we sweat. . . . We found we weren't so hot. . . . We had good men and good machines but we learned to get better work from both. . . . Rejects got less and less. Now we turn out 1,100 different types and sizes of gears and our rejects are less than...
...gauge block, invention of a Swedish genius, now made in the U.S. exclusively by Ford. With surfaces finished to an accuracy (at a constant temperature of 68° F.) within two-millionths of an inch, these blocks maintain the accuracy of micrometers and other gauges down to a ten-thousandth of an inch, thus make possible the interchangeability of parts, essence of mass production. Today, with production booming, the "Jo" blocks, always scarce, are spread as thin as management itself. Last week a lone machinist in a privy-sized Cleveland shop was easing the scarcity and making...
Carl Edward Johansson, working in a Swedish arsenal, cracked the accurate-measurement nut in the 1890s. He knew there was nothing so accurate in the hands of a toolmaker as a simple block of steel. Assuming that the average shop needed measurements for every ten-thousandth of an inch from 1/10 of an inch to 12 inches, a complete set of block gauges would number well over 100,000 pieces. But he found that every one of these measurements could be obtained by a combination of only 81 pieces, the smallest being 1/10 of an inch, the largest four inches...