People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — How Needles Are Made. [ARTICLE]

How Needles Are Made.

Needles are all made by machinery. The piece of mechanism by which the needle Is manufactured takes the rough steel wire, cuts it into proper lengths, files the point, flattens the head, pierces the eye, then sharpens the tiny instrument and gives it that polish familiar to the purchaser. There Is, also, a machine by which needles are counted and placed in tihe papers in which they are sold, these being afterward folded by the same contrivance.