This automatic and self-lubricating system
anticipating the assembly line the twentieth century.
4) Recollections Dan Smith and Benny Odel, Mary Childs
Nerney's notes, 281101.
5) Ford and S.G.3
stages. The rubber
belts ran rollers which were specially designed resist
dust and dirt. Henry
Ford later claimed that was Edison's example Ogden that
inspired him devise his assembly line for the Model T. Conveyance was one the important engineering
problems solved because offered the greatest
opportunity decrease the cost the operation.
2) TAE Kruesi, ND, Kruesi file
3) Scientific American, voi 66, April 1892, 216.
. Crowther, "Edison Knew Him," quoted in
Josephson, 378.
ENDNOTES
1) Robbins reminiscence, quoted Josephson, 368
