So this old man is walking down the street in Brooklyn.
He sees a young boy sitting on the street in front of a candy shop, shoving sweets in his mouth as fast as possible.
The man walks up to the boy and says "You know son, it's really not healthy to eat all that candy."
The kid looks up at him and says, "You know my grandfather lived to be 97 years old."
The man replies "Oh and did he eat a lot of candy?" The kid looks at him and says "No, but he minded his own fucking business."
Parts standardizationIn 1813, for the first time in the U.S., a requirement for standardization in factory production became part of a federal government contract which specified interchangeable parts. Twenty thousand pistols were ordered from the contractor, Col. Simeon North of Berlin, Conn. to be made such that "component parts of the pistols are to correspond so exactly that any limb or part of one pistol may be fitted to any other pistol of the 20,000." The contract price was $7 per pistol, to be delivered over a five year period. Since 1810, Col. North had already owned a pistol factory in Middletown, Conn., and produced the pistols at the rate of about 10,000 per year. |
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