Monotype Corporation machine shop at around 1935. Picture shows apprentices working at benches and machines at the age of 14. Such a high concentration of machinery and a total disregard for safety shields on machinery would never be allowed today.
70 years on and Trident Micro Systems now stands on this very same spot, selling high tech equipment such as plazma TV screens. I wonder what the 14 year old apprentices would have made of todays technology
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