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Labor-Saving Machinery in Philadelphia Clothing Manufacture

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 30, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 19.

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Labor-Saving Machinery in Philadelphia Clothing Manufacture

It is said that in the city of Philadelphia, Pa., 50,000 persons are employed in the manufacture of clothing, and that 20,000,000 suits are made there every year. Garments are cut by machinery, one machine doing the labor of about eight men. Button-holes are worked by machinery at the rate of one hundred and eighty per hour, while by hand only three could be worked in the same time. This shows the wonderful effect of labor-saving machinery, the productions of this marvelous age.