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Whether God helped him or not, certainly Man was helping him: ten thousand and ten thousand hammers from Spezzia to Belfast in model-office and mould-loft and rolling-mill in foundry and yard and roaring forge were ringing upon metal for him, their clamorous industry clattering over Europe and America carillons of his name. Almost suddenly that noise of chiming hammers reached the general ear.
He had been clever: had penetrated even the model-office, peered at detailed draughtsman's-plans, developed from the original specifications, as well as at orders for Krupp plates, frames, etc.; had listened in the yard to the talk of four naval men acting as a Board of Inspection; was able to give details of the machining of enormous processed plates to sizes determined by templates, the length of pan-headed rivets, the specific gravity of an average cubic foot, the scarfing of edges, the accumulation of prepared material.
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