He also co-patented machines designed to manufacture barbed-wire fencing, skive, gage and mark leather, create leather buttonholes, rub type, and remove bristles from sealskins.
No doubt some of the stations are dirty and cramped, but more problematic were the seemingly perennial strikes (though they provided an unimpeachable excuse to skive lectures).
Wagers are already pouring in and the industry is set for a record-breaking betting bonanza as workers skive off to engulf themselves in all of the action.
