Navy speeds up chain making
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Navy speeds up chain making
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Navy speeds up chain making
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ADIE-LOCK method of making links, developed at the
Boston Navy Yard's famous chain shop, is now pro-
viding our big fighting ships with the strongest anchor
chains in the world. Until recently, a chain was assem-
bled by heating open links and pounding them into locked
position with giant steam hammers. Under the new meth-
od, in which links 50 percent stronger are being made 20
times faster, straight steel bars are bent and processed
into two half links, one of which has threads that lock into
the hollow parts of its complement. In the average battle-
ship anchor chain, each steel link is 3 3/8 inches thick and
20 inches long, weighs 129 pounds, and is break-strength
tested at a million and a quarter pounds.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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George Woodruff (Photographer)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-08
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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94
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 143, n. 2, 1943
