NIFT UG 2010 Question Paper with solutions

  This workshop of Edison’s was an astonishingly busy centre of industry as far as activity and hours of labour were concerned. Edison never asked his men to do anything that he would not do himself; his one order was ‘follow me’ and that meant working with him through endless hours. It is said that on one occasion he even locked himself and his men in, until a difficult piece of work was done-sixty hours on end. Generally the men were employed on piece-work and the longer and the more skilfully they worked the more they earned.