Using the Bong Zack Machine to Make Cigarettes

A young man named James Bosnack approached Duke with a cigarette making machine he had invented. In 1881, using his team of imported hand rollers, Duke turned out 9.8 million cigarettes. Using the bong zack machines enabled him to produce 744 million cigarettes in 1888. So 1881 9.8m cigarettes. He gets the bongZack machine 744 million. And by 1885, he had about 700 hand rollers in two factories. This is reasonably well-paying work for young women. They're trying to put out as uniform a product as possible. But that's not really easy to do.