Excerpt from The Warner and Swasey Company, 1880-1920: Fortieth Anniversary Celebration, Cleveland, Ohio The two farm lads felt something of the greatness of the new day. It was not the mechanic's trade, as a possible livelihood, that interested them chiefly, it was Machinery as a means to an end, as a servant to mankind. Their meeting was in itself one of the many parallelisms in their lives. They had, independently, determined at about the same time to leave the farm for industry, and they entered the same machine shop as apprentices Within a few months of one another, in the same year, at the same age of nineteen. The apprentice in those days was viewed more as a convenient drudge than as an asset to be made into a valuable entity, and the two farmer boys had the same ample lack of opportunities as their comrades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.