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IN Report No. 5 of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board Dr. H. M. Vernon describes the results of a series of investigations carried out at most of the chief iron and steel centres in the United Kingdom. He points out that there are tremendous variations in the mechanical efficiency of the plant employed in various works and in the efficiency with which human labour is utilised. In most districts the blast furnaces are charged by hand, though four to eight times more men are required than for mechanical charging, and the work is of a much heavier character. In the most efficiently run open-hearth steel furnaces two to three times more charges of steel are worked per week than in the least efficient, whilst the efficiency of rolling mills varies in similar proportion.
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Fatigue and Efficiency in the Iron and Steel Industry. Nature 107, 156 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107156a0
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