Can you imagine a giant shovel so huge that it took 45 freight cars to haul it from factory to mine? Do you know that there is a machine that plucks the feathers off chickens, ones that pick corn, dig potatoes? Inventors of machines work on everything--they even had fun making a mechanical mouse that can sniff about until it finds a piece of “cheese” and then “remember” and run straight to it next time! As marvelous and complicated as all these machines are, the author points out that no inventions will ever be as wonderful as the men who invented them--and the men who make them work. Garden City Books Garden City, New York End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Ships at Work, by Mary Elting Folsom