i Translation: “Abstract: For setting up the giant piston of the press, they needed a crane of great force. Without it, Drăgan, the team leader, and engineer Sandu proposed to install a metallic scaffold. After all, where from did the worker Drăgan and engineer Sandu have so many metallic girders only using their savings? They couldn’t have saved so much metal. They took those girders from a hall in demolition. They set up the scaffold in two days, they put on it a kind of pulley – Their solution was formidable especially due to its novelty! – and look what happened next .... The cable started to click! Then, it is clear that only one cable cannot hold it. We shall set up also the second pulley .... Do you think this cable will hold? We shall make a try first .... Connect the mechanism, Marin. So, we won’t go home until we set up the second pulley. To work. Only one girder will not hold two pulleys. I say that we set it up on the next girder. Hey, Marin, call for several men and fetch that sand box from the corner of the room .... Master, we need urgently the best automatist and electrician engineer. I don’t see what business the electrician has here. The two installations for lifting must be synchronized to a fraction of second. Otherwise, the cables will break. But here is the technologist .... I leave you for a moment so that I can check the resistance calculi ....”

ii Translation: “Abstract of the previous episode: The team of young welders of the communist master Grigore Bentu finish one task at height, on two power-line towers. How will the young utecişti [Communists] pass this exam, too? Which of you lost the electrodes? I did master. I didn’t want to get my pocket dirty and I left them here, nearby .... Miruna, leave the electrodes. Let the guilty one come and get them. Don’t worry master. I have been going mountain-climbing for four years .... There’s no need for Miruna to replace me. There, above, any oversight has a very high price. Next time be more attentive. I can see two lorries .... Yes, for sure they bring the power-line cables .... Your highness, do not stand up or you will break your head in the stars .... I need an angle bracket. Not smaller than a metre. We should also set up here a safety ... buttress. Leave this for tomorrow, Culai. Look, the wind blows even stronger. This is not possible master. Here are the people with the cables .... Corneliu should cut a buttress and bring it up .... Cornele, take care because you have the wind against you .... I can manage it, master .... It is harder for those up high .... Ilarie, is that you? Master Bentu, I haven`t hugged you since we worked at the Iron Gates ....”

iii Translation: “A massive wall of the cliff bars our way! The underground river disappears under the mountain. The stone trap has closed. It seems that there is no escape from here, Silvia. I can see light. There is a hole to my right! I think we are saved! The boy discovered an exit. Hurray! We’ve made it! We’ve arrived at the hydropower plant! Comrade chief engineer, our boys have arrived. Your hydropower plant is very beautiful. It will be a huge fortress of light. Glad to meet you comrade Merişan. Our Report is very simple. We can bring the stream from the Dacians Valley [Valea Dacilor] in the accumulation lake of the hydro power plant. I congratulate you boys; your work is excellent! The hydro power plant will start several days earlier. The success of this expedition is to a great degree thanks to our young friend from the Dacians Valley. He helped us discover the entry of the underground river. And thus, he discovered his own way in life.”

iv Translation: “The special deed of our colleague Mitrică .... So, for the Lights magazine .... For the This way, yes! column Mitrică, here is Mitrică! .... Come on Mitrică, don’t be mean! Take us to the building site, too! At least once .... Let me speak to Daniel first. Each day I verify the engine and the hydraulic equipment. You must know all the time the functioning state of the excavating machine. Mitrică, please give me the 24 wrenches! This is the wrench that I’ve asked you for. You don’t know it. I will show it to you now. The excavating machine is so well conceived that it is in permanent balance, look! The hydraulic arm creates an equilateral triangle with the ground! Probably you know which are the properties of the equilateral triangle .... .... Look Mitrică, during it’s functioning, triangles are formed, on which you could study very well the Thales’s theorem! Do you know it? .... A .... Thales’s theorem? .... Sure .... Ah .... Thales .... Yes .... Ah .... It says that .... Ah .... Your cousin, Daniel, is the best of the brigadiers, and you, Mitrică, you don’t even know the theorems that you learn at school. If I were you, I wouldn’t leave the book from my hands! I promise that I will learn and get a 10 in Maths. Do you believe me?”