Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
The sound of saws echoed through the cavernous Mill Services buildings as workers fed white pine boards into a laser-scanning machine that checked for defects at the rate of 750 feet per minute....
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