 | David Montgomery - 1979 - 206 páginas
...Pennsylvania. "None of us ever went to school and learned the chemistry of it from books," he recalled. "We learned the trick by doing it, standing with our...heat while our hands puddled the metal in its glaring bath."5 His first job, in fact, had come at the age of twelve, when an aged puddler devised a scheme... | |
 | Daniel J. Leab - 1985 - 500 páginas
...Pennsylvania. "None of us ever went to school and learned the chemistry of it from books," he recalled. "We learned the trick by doing it, standing with our...heat while our hands puddled the metal in its glaring bath."5 His first job, in fact, had come at the age of twelve, when an aged puddler devised a scheme... | |
 | David Montgomery - 1987 - 510 páginas
...Warren Harding's secretary of labor, described his experience of the 1 890s in Sharon, Pennsylvania, "None of us ever went to school and learned the chemistry...heat while our hands puddled the metal in its glaring bath."17 Puddlers were far more numerous than any other type of craftsmen in the industry. For example,... | |
 | Nicholas K. Bromell - 1993 - 300 páginas
...books and stored in the mind. Rather, it is acquired through experience and stored in the muscles: This process was handed down from father to son, and...heat while our hands puddled the metal in its glaring path. . . . To-day there are books telling just how many degrees of heat make the water right for scalding... | |
 | James V. Catano - 2001 - 300 páginas
...earnestly embraces this vision as the true form of masculine development. Puddling iron is a skill "handed down from father to son, and in the course...while our hands puddled the metal in its glaring bath" (91). Masculine knowledge, growth, and authority merge seamlessly as life's hard experiences are enacted... | |
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None of us ever went to school and learned the chemistry of it from books. We learned the trick by doing it, standing with our faces in the scorching heat while our hands puddled the metal in its glaring bath. 