To: Squawk 8888
Great Lakes Steel had computer controlled rolling mills in the early 1960s. It was astounding to me that management allowed Japanese engineers tour these mills with their Nicon cameras - they soon stole the technology and the steel business.
24 posted on
07/05/2014 8:05:14 AM PDT by
shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
To: shove_it
IIRC it was the 1970s when a lot of the heavy industries here stopped innovating.
25 posted on
07/05/2014 8:08:13 AM PDT by
Squawk 8888
(Lacrosse- Canada's national sport, like hockey only violent)
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