{"id":3472,"date":"2018-12-09T23:45:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/de\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2023-05-31T14:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T12:08:19","slug":"the-apprentice-and-the-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/12-2018\/the-apprentice-and-the-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"The apprentice and the gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3537 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2018\/11\/ZAHNRAD-VIGNETTE-150x150.jpg\" alt width=\"100\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Regens\u00adburg, 4 Novem\u00adber 1929, 10 a.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe nobody\u2019s man\u00adaged it!\u201d exclaimed Dr. Bern\u00adhard Jansen, crum\u00adpling up the let\u00adter from yet anoth\u00ader met\u00adal\u00adwork\u00ading shop. The gear still lay on the table. A gear with a drilled hole which the young engi\u00adneer from Hanover stared at angri\u00adly. That con\u00adfound\u00aded hole! Why couldn\u2019t any\u00adone make one that wasn\u2019t drilled, he won\u00addered.<\/p>\n<p>Jansen stood up, walked to the door and looked into the out\u00ader office.<br>\n\u201cMiss Egel\u00adhofer, would you be so kind as to make me a cup of tea?\u201d<br>\n\u201cOf course, sir. Are you feel\u00ading alright?\u201d<br>\n\u201cWell, we\u2019ve just had a \u2019no\u2019 from the Niekisch shop this morn\u00ading. That\u2019s the sixth one now. I\u2019m start\u00ading to wor\u00adry that we just won\u2019t be able to build these pro\u00adto\u00adtypes. It\u2019s all per\u00adfect\u00adly clear on paper, but try as I might I can\u2019t find a com\u00adpe\u00adtent met\u00adal\u00adwork\u00ader any\u00adwhere around here. Any\u00adway, I don\u2019t want to both\u00ader you with all this. I\u2019d like chamomile with plen\u00adty of sug\u00adar, please.\u201d<br>\n<br>\nJansen closed the door again and went to the win\u00addow. The work\u00ading day out on the streets was in full swing. Horse-drawn carts bear\u00ading tim\u00adber and crates of apples rum\u00adbled past Jansen\u2019s office. Out of the cor\u00adner of his eye, he noticed May\u00ador Hipp\u2019s car turn off. His was the only green car in the whole of Regens\u00adburg. Jansen\u2019s gaze rest\u00aded on the sooty smoke ris\u00ading from the chim\u00adney of the Bavar\u00adi\u00adan sug\u00adar fac\u00adto\u00adry, the largest in the area. They, too, were hun\u00adgry for Jansen\u2019s elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3541\" style=\"width: 972px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3541 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2018\/11\/JUNGE-ILLU-01_Jansen-e1543329417702.jpg\" alt width=\"972\" height=\"931\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bern\u00adhard Jansen, direc\u00adtor of Oberp\u00adfalzw\u00aderke, had been unable to get hold of any suit\u00adable gears. Why was it that not a sin\u00adgle met\u00adal\u00adwork\u00ading shop could make a non-drilled one? \u00a9&nbsp;Ger\u00adnot Wal\u00adter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jansen was the tech\u00adni\u00adcal direc\u00adtor of Oberp\u00adfalzw\u00aderke, a region\u00adal util\u00adi\u00adty com\u00adpa\u00adny sup\u00adply\u00ading pow\u00ader to Regens\u00adburg and the sur\u00adround\u00ading areas. His rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion as a tal\u00adent\u00aded, even bril\u00adliant inven\u00adtor had helped him secure this man\u00adage\u00adment-board posi\u00adtion in Bavaria, despite being just 29 years old at the time. That was over a year ago now. Dur\u00ading his appli\u00adca\u00adtion for the post he impressed his future employ\u00aders with the patent he held for a tap chang\u00ader that could switch trans\u00adform\u00aders at full load with\u00adout inter\u00adrupt\u00ading the pow\u00ader sup\u00adply. This could be a solu\u00adtion to an increas\u00ading\u00adly urgent issue: How could pow\u00ader plants pro\u00advide homes with elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty at a con\u00adstant volt\u00adage? With the increas\u00ading num\u00adber of fac\u00adto\u00adries and plants requir\u00ading elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty, there was sud\u00adden\u00adly a huge num\u00adber of con\u00adsumers con\u00adnect\u00aded to, and severe\u00adly affect\u00ading, the pow\u00ader grid. Each time they start\u00aded up or shut down, there were pow\u00ader out\u00adages. Jansen\u2019s idea could change the pow\u00ader sup\u00adply land\u00adscape.<\/p>\n<p>But what use was a patent if he couldn\u2019t find some\u00adone to build his tap chang\u00ader? Jansen went back to his desk and looked through the rest of yesterday\u2019s cor\u00adre\u00adspon\u00addence. It was a drea\u00adry day so he switched on his desk lamp.<\/p>\n<p>He knew that every\u00adone want\u00aded pow\u00ader these days, and his job as direc\u00adtor of Oberp\u00adfalzw\u00aderke was to give them what they want\u00aded.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the chal\u00adlenge went far beyond his indi\u00advid\u00adual role as a direc\u00adtor. Elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty for all was the future. Jansen had been a firm believ\u00ader of this for many years. Yet it seemed like every\u00adthing had reached a dead end. There had been no tech\u00adni\u00adcal progress and nobody knew how to extend the pow\u00ader grids with\u00adout los\u00ading con\u00adtrol over them. Jansen, who<br>\nbelieved he had an answer to this very issue, was fail\u00ading at the first hur\u00addle because nobody could even build his gear.<\/p>\n<p>His office door opened. It was Miss Egel\u00adhofer with his tea, with his engi\u00adneer Lan\u00addauer in tow. From the look on Landauer\u2019s face, Jansen knew it wasn\u2019t good news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, Miss Egel\u00adhofer. Mr. Lan\u00addauer, what\u2019s trou\u00adbling you?\u201d<br>\n\u201cGood morn\u00ading, sir. AEG has sent a let\u00adter. You might want to take a look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lan\u00addauer hand\u00aded him an open enve\u00adlope and stood wait\u00ading at the desk with his arms fold\u00aded. Was he plan\u00adning to watch while Jansen read the let\u00adter?<\/p>\n<p>Appar\u00adent\u00adly so. AEG \u2013 the gen\u00ader\u00adal elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty com\u00adpa\u00adny in Berlin \u2013 was Jansen\u2019s most impor\u00adtant part\u00adner. Some time ago, he had signed a lucra\u00adtive license agree\u00adment with them. AEG want\u00aded to build his tap chang\u00ader on a large scale and install it in their trans\u00adform\u00aders. If it worked, Jansen looked set to become a wealthy man. Yet first he had to deliv\u00ader a pro\u00adto\u00adtype to prove that his switch would deliv\u00ader on his promis\u00ades. Jansen read the let\u00adter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 1.5vw;\"><em>Dear Sirs,<br>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 1.5vw;\"><em>With regard to your let\u00adter dat\u00aded 3 Octo\u00adber 1929, we here\u00adby take the lib\u00ader\u00adty of request\u00ading fur\u00adther infor\u00adma\u00adtion: When might we expect deliv\u00adery of the \u201ctap chang\u00ader\u201d inven\u00adtion as per Impe\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal Patent Office num\u00adbers 467560, 474613, and 496564? You will for\u00adgive us for expect\u00ading a firm com\u00admit\u00adment from you as soon as pos\u00adsi\u00adble.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 1.5vw;\"><em>Respect\u00adful\u00adly yours, Dr. Kon\u00adrad Blenkle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in a real fix now, Lan\u00addauer. They\u2019re los\u00ading patience in Berlin.\u201d<br>\n\u201cWith respect, sir, have we real\u00adly tried absolute\u00adly every\u00adthing in our pow\u00ader?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell what do you think I\u2019ve been doing all this time? Read\u00ading the news\u00adpa\u00adper? I sim\u00adply can\u2019t find a met\u00adal\u00adwork\u00ading shop that can make this blast\u00aded gear, not to men\u00adtion all the rest of it!\u201d said Jansen, slump\u00ading in his seat and shak\u00ading his head in exas\u00adper\u00ada\u00adtion. \u201cIt\u2019s get\u00adting ridicu\u00adlous.\u201d<br>\n\u201cI might know some\u00adone else who could help: Kare Scheubeck from Rein\u00adhausen, a friend of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKare?\u201d<br>\n\u201cWell, his full name is Oskar. He has a met\u00adal\u00adwork\u00ading shop with his broth\u00ader and makes all sorts of things. He\u2019s a clever fel\u00adlow.\u201d<br>\n\u201cVery well then, why not. In the worst case he\u2019ll just be the sev\u00adenth per\u00adson who can\u2019t do it. I\u2019ll go and see him in per\u00adson. Let your friend know I\u2019ll be com\u00ading first thing tomor\u00adrow at nine.\u201d<br>\n\u201cI\u2019ll take care of it, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3537 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2018\/11\/ZAHNRAD-VIGNETTE-150x150.jpg\" alt width=\"100\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Rein\u00adhausen, 5 Novem\u00adber 1929, 8:30 a.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oskar Scheubeck rubbed his tem\u00adples. This headache was dri\u00adving him to dis\u00adtrac\u00adtion. He had bare\u00adly slept for days. He won\u00addered which would come first: bank\u00adrupt\u00adcy or a rest\u00adful night.<\/p>\n<p>Scheubeck didn\u2019t know much about either pol\u00adi\u00adtics or the nation\u00adal econ\u00ado\u00admy, but he under\u00adstood that some\u00adthing cru\u00adcial had hap\u00adpened a few days ago when the New York Stock Exchange had crashed. Nor\u00admal\u00adly this would not have both\u00adered him, but cir\u00adcum\u00adstances had been unusu\u00adal for some time. The Berlin gov\u00adern\u00adment changed almost year\u00adly, and there were con\u00adstant dis\u00adputes about war repa\u00adra\u00adtions to the vic\u00adtors of the World War. Now there was this new Young Plan. The Nazis were march\u00ading in the streets more and more often, chant\u00adi\u00adng their slo\u00adgans. The Com\u00admu\u00adnists had even start\u00aded appear\u00ading. Here in Catholic Regens\u00adburg, they had nev\u00ader gained a foothold before. It must have been down to all the unem\u00adploy\u00adment. Mean\u00adwhile, some\u00adone turned up almost every day ask\u00ading Scheubeck for work at his shop. He turned them down near\u00adly every time.<\/p>\n<p>And now, to top it all off, there was this cri\u00adsis at the stock exchange all the way over in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. Scheubeck knew that a lot of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan mon\u00adey was keep\u00ading the Reich run\u00adning. If even Amer\u00adi\u00adca was in trou\u00adble now, then God have mer\u00adcy.<br>\n\u201cJansen from Oberp\u00adfalzw\u00aderke is com\u00ading today, isn\u2019t he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard\u2019s voice inter\u00adrupt\u00aded his thoughts. \u201cYes that\u2019s right; he\u2019ll be here soon.\u201d<br>\n\u201cWill you talk to him? I have to go to the bank with father soon to ask for a repay\u00adment defer\u00adral.\u201d<br>\n\u201cWill do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOskar, lis\u00adten. This is very seri\u00adous. Even if the bank accom\u00admo\u00addates our request, it\u2019s only a mat\u00adter of time. We need some\u00adthing new. Some\u00adthing that works, prefer\u00adably for the long term. Maybe Jansen can give us some\u00adthing like that. Be polite and help\u00adful, under\u00adstood? And remem\u00adber: it\u2019s Doc\u00adtor Jansen. Doc\u00adtor \u2013 don\u2019t for\u00adget. That\u2019s impor\u00adtant to a Pruss\u00adian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard threw on his coat and went out of the work\u00adshop into the morn\u00ading driz\u00adzle. Mean\u00adwhile, Oskar Scheubeck drank a sip of his pure bean cof\u00adfee. It was the only lux\u00adu\u00adry they could still indulge in these days.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from his broth\u00ader Richard and Oskar him\u00adself, just ten peo\u00adple remained at the once proud Maschi\u00adnen\u00adfab\u00adrik Rein\u00adhausen, which had belonged to their father. Until just recent\u00adly, they had still been mak\u00ading cleav\u00ading frame saws, the ori\u00adgin of the \u201cMaschi\u00adnen\u00adfab\u00adrik\u201d (machine fac\u00adto\u00adry) part of their com\u00adpa\u00adny name. Yet since the end of the war, the tim\u00adber side of the busi\u00adness had slowed down and the new, much faster band saws had over\u00adtak\u00aden their mod\u00adel. In the spring they had decid\u00aded to dis\u00adcon\u00adtin\u00adue pro\u00adduc\u00adtion. Since then, the met\u00adal\u00adwork\u00aders had been mak\u00ading a bit of every\u00adthing, work\u00ading on what\u00adev\u00ader would earn them some mon\u00adey includ\u00ading bicy\u00adcle parts, fit\u00adtings, and win\u00addow frames for rail cars. In the sum\u00admer they had staked every\u00adthing they had and built a small air\u00adplane. Any inven\u00adtor worth his salt was build\u00ading air\u00adplanes. After all, Lind\u00adbergh had just com\u00adplet\u00aded the first transat\u00adlantic flight. But the Scheubeck broth\u00aders\u2019 pro\u00adto\u00adtype crashed, and with it, they lost the last of their sav\u00adings.<\/p>\n<p>Scheubeck took anoth\u00ader sip of cof\u00adfee. His headaches were ter\u00adri\u00adble.<br>\nThere was a knock on the door.<br>\n\u201cPlease come in!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A tall man in a well-cut suit entered the work\u00adshop. Quite young for a direc\u00adtor.<br>\n\u201cYou must be Oskar Scheubeck? I\u2019m Dr. Jansen, direc\u00adtor of Oberp\u00adfalzw\u00aderke. Mr. Lan\u00addauer, my engi\u00adneer, rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded you.\u201d<br>\n\u201cYes, he came to see me yes\u00adter\u00adday. Do come over, Mr. Jansen. How can I help you? It would be an hon\u00ador.\u201d<br>\nCon\u00adfound it, he had for\u00adgot\u00adten to say \u201cDoc\u00adtor\u201d! Richard would be furi\u00adous.<\/p>\n<p>Jansen pulled some papers out of his bag and spread them out on the work\u00adbench. Scheubeck looked at the set of com\u00adplex con\u00adstruc\u00adtion draw\u00adings.<br>\n\u201cIt\u2019s this one here,\u201d said Jansen, point\u00ading to a gear. \u201cVery sim\u00adple as a con\u00adcept. Can you<br>\nmake this for me, with exact\u00adly these pro\u00adpor\u00adtions? I need it as soon as pos\u00adsi\u00adble. The most impor\u00adtant thing is that you stick exact\u00adly to the spec\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion. And I mean exact\u00adly.\u201d<br>\n\u201cWhat is the part for?\u201d<br>\n\u201cI\u2019m using it to build a tap chang\u00ader for trans\u00adform\u00aders.\u201d<br>\n\u201cNev\u00ader heard of that.\u201d<br>\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mat\u00adter. The main thing is that you make this gear for me. Can I count on you?\u201d<br>\n\u201cOf course, Doc\u00adtor!\u201d<br>\n\u201cGood. Let me know when you\u2019ve done it. Good day to you, Mr. Scheubeck.\u201d<br>\n\u201cGood\u00adbye, Doc\u00adtor Jansen!\u201d<br>\nOff he went. An odd fel\u00adlow. Scheubeck took his time look\u00ading at the draw\u00ading.<br>\nThis awful headache!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3537 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2018\/11\/ZAHNRAD-VIGNETTE-150x150.jpg\" alt width=\"100\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p><em>That same day, at 10&nbsp;a.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Franz Xaver Bauer was whistling The Gyp\u00adsy Baron. The young appren\u00adtice had had the tune in his head since his week\u00adend vis\u00adit to the Strauss operetta at the city hall. The song and Ottilie. What an evening. After the music they had tak\u00aden a long night-time walk to Ottilie\u2019s house. Despite the cold, he had felt warm inside.<\/p>\n<p>He had final\u00adly expe\u00adri\u00adenced some\u00adthing beau\u00adti\u00adful again. Here at the work\u00adshop, peo\u00adple bare\u00adly smiled any more. Since the Scheubecks\u2019 air\u00adplane had crashed, when\u00adev\u00ader he saw the broth\u00aders around the build\u00ading they had long faces. Bauer sus\u00adpect\u00aded that the machine fac\u00adto\u00adry was on its last legs. One cowork\u00ader after anoth\u00ader had been leav\u00ading. Some stayed near\u00adby, while oth\u00aders went as far as Munich. Peo\u00adple were say\u00ading that there was still a lot of work there for dili\u00adgent met\u00adal\u00adwork\u00aders. Should he fol\u00adlow suit? But what about Ottilie?<\/p>\n<p>Xaver laid out his tools and began fil\u00ading. It would be ter\u00adri\u00adble if the machine fac\u00adto\u00adry closed down! His moth\u00ader had been so hap\u00adpy when Xaver had found such a good appren\u00adtice\u00adship. Met\u00adal \u2013 peo\u00adple would always need met\u00adal. Xaver\u2019s father had been lost in action around that time; he was buried some\u00adwhere in France. Xaver could bare\u00adly remem\u00adber him. His pic\u00adture was hang\u00ading in the liv\u00ading room. Xaver\u2019s moth\u00ader still dec\u00ado\u00adrat\u00aded it with fresh flow\u00aders every week. In the pic\u00adture, he was the&nbsp;same age as Xaver was now. His moth\u00ader was almost always away doing laun\u00addry work, but now he could final\u00adly sup\u00adport her with his appren\u00adtice wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXaver, come here a moment.\u201d The young Mr. Scheubeck had called him over.<br>\n\u201cYes, Mr. Scheubeck.\u201d He approached Oskar Scheubeck\u2019s work\u00adbench, notic\u00ading that he was star\u00ading at a cou\u00adple of sheets of paper. His boss looked even more morose than he had over the last few days.<br>\n\u201cLook, Xaver, we have a new order. The direc\u00adtor from the pow\u00ader plant wants us to make this gear and he\u2019s in a hur\u00adry to make it hap\u00adpen. Think about how you\u2019d make some\u00adthing like this.\u201d<br>\n\u201cOf course, Mr. Scheubeck. Shall I work on it alone?\u201d<br>\n\u201cYes please, my headaches might yet be the death of me. I\u2019m going upstairs to lie down for a while. Richard will be back from the bank soon. You can ask him if you\u2019re strug\u00adgling with it.\u201d<br>\n\u201cUnder\u00adstood, sir.\u201d<br>\n\u201cOne more thing, Xaver. Make sure you work hard on this. You nev\u00ader know, the direc\u00adtor might send more orders our way after\u00adward. You know how much we need this. Tell me lat\u00ader what you\u2019ve come up with, alright?\u201d<br>\n\u201cAbsolute\u00adly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young Scheubeck clapped him on the shoul\u00adder and head\u00aded for the stairs. Xaver Bauer looked at the draw\u00ading. It was cer\u00adtain\u00adly com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded. He could bare\u00adly deci\u00adpher the hand\u00adwrit\u00adten dimen\u00adsions. He stood look\u00ading at it for 20 min\u00adutes. Then he decid\u00aded to just get start\u00aded.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3557\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3557 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2018\/11\/Junge-Illu-02.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"832\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With only a few fin\u00adish\u00ading touch\u00ades, appren\u00adtice Franz Xaver Bauer fin\u00adished the gear. It took him just one day. Let\u2019s see what the mas\u00adters think about it\u2026<br>\u00a9&nbsp;Ger\u00adnot Wal\u00adter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>6&nbsp;p.m that evening<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bern\u00adhard Jansen knocked on the work\u00adshop door. He had heard from Lan\u00addauer that the Scheubecks had already made the gear. Could this real\u00adly be true?<br>\n\u201cPlease come in!\u201d Jansen stepped inside.<br>\n\u201cGood evening, gen\u00adtle\u00admen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jansen looked at Oskar Scheubeck stand\u00ading at the work\u00adbench, with a young lad beside him wear\u00ading a hat. A gear lay on the bench. His gear. Jansen went straight up to him and shook his hand.<br>\n\u201cAstound\u00ading! That looks very good!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jansen weighed the part in his hands and inspect\u00aded it from every side. He took a yard stick and caliper from his bag and mea\u00adsured all the impor\u00adtant dimen\u00adsions. They were per\u00adfect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you man\u00adaged this in just a sin\u00adgle day, Mr. Scheubeck? Unbe\u00adliev\u00adable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Doc\u00adtor. I mean, no. It wasn\u2019t me who did it \u2013 it was my young appren\u00adtice here, Xaver. I actu\u00adal\u00adly just want\u00aded him to think about it, but then he went ahead and made it and has just shown it to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3543\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3543 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2018\/11\/JUNGE-ILLU-03.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bern\u00adhard Jansen is delight\u00aded. The gear is per\u00adfect! \u201cWith Maschi\u00adnen\u00adfab\u00adrik Rein\u00adhausen we can make this hap\u00adpen,\u201d he thought to him\u00adself, and prompt\u00adly placed an order with Oskar Scheubeck for more work. \u00a9&nbsp;Ger\u00adnot Wal\u00adter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cExcuse me? It took you just a day to make some\u00adthing that six met\u00adal\u00adwork\u00ading shops in Regens\u00adburg haven\u2019t man\u00adaged in weeks? How did you even do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The young man flushed red.<br>\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t say, Doc\u00adtor. I just start\u00aded and then\u2026 I can\u2019t even explain it.\u201d<br>\nJansen couldn\u2019t help but laugh.<br>\n\u201cWell you\u2019ve real\u00adly impressed me, Xaver!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scheubeck grinned at his appren\u00adtice. The teacher was proud of his accom\u00adplished stu\u00addent. And with good rea\u00adson. It was a tru\u00adly extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary achieve\u00adment.<br>\nJansen put out his hand toward Xaver, who grasped it and flushed red again.<br>\n\u201cWell done, young man!\u201d<br>\nThen Jansen went to shake Scheubeck\u2019s hand.<br>\n\u201cDo you know what, Mr. Scheubeck? If your appren\u00adtices are already smarter than the experts else\u00adwhere, I think I\u2019ve found the right met\u00adal\u00adwork\u00ading shop. I would like you to make more parts for me. Do you agree?\u201d<br>\n\u201cWe would be tru\u00adly delight\u00aded, Doc\u00adtor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have some oth\u00ader draw\u00adings here,\u201d Jansen said, pulling a few oth\u00ader pages out of his bag and plac\u00ading them on the work\u00adbench. Scheubeck stood to his left, and the appren\u00adtice to his right.<\/p>\n<p>Jansen began to explain.<br>\n\u201cRight, so this is the tap chang\u00ader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #666; font-size: 0.9em;\">\u2014 THE END \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Maschi\u00adnen\u00adfab\u00adrik Rein\u00adhausen made the move to tap chang\u00aders.<br><span>Freely adapt\u00aded based on a true sto\u00adry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-12-2018"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8466,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/8466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}