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agitated this whole thing in the American Institute of Architects and in the New York State Society of Architects until we had the whole architectural profession back of us on the demand that we set up laws about the construction of factories, the pattern to be the pattern of the protection of life against fire hazards and against other hazards to life and limb that arose out of the process of having so many people together.

That of course meant machine guarding which the architects had nothing to do with, but which was handed on with general enthusiasm to machine designers, so that machine designers began to get interested and designed a machine that had a guard all built in. In the more progressive concerns that were just getting big in those days they could sell this stuff to cut down their accident hazards. The Eastman Kodak Company, which deals in a product which is one of the most terrible fire hazards imaginable, as well as an accident hazard, was really one of the greatest helps to us in this whole thing because their people were aware of fire hazards for themselves. They had taken the most extreme protections in their plants, both in the pattern and type of their buildings and in the arrangement of their machinery, as well as strict fire prevention devices.

The automatic sprinkler was another principle which