This is imported from the Ural Mountains.
The silk thread comes from Italy and Japan; the iron for magnets, from Norway; the paper tape, from Manila; the mahogany, from South America; and the rubber, from Brazil and the valley of the Congo.

At least seven countries must cooperate to make a telephone message possible.
Perhaps the most extraordinary feature in the Western Electric factories is the multitude of its inspectors.

No other sort of manufacturing, not even a Government navy-yard, has so many.

Nothing is too small to escape these sleuths of inspection.

They test every tiny disc of mica, and throw away nine out of ten.