Identifier: cassiersmagazi2719041newy (find matches)
Title: Cassier's magazine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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awdust and shavings to a neigh-bouring boiler room. The greatest installation of thewhole dockyard is the building com-prising the fitting and finishing shops,with the copper forge and the armour-plate shops, forming altogether abuilding with seven bays, and cover-ing an area of 4? acres. The principalbay constitutes the fitters shop, witha floor space 165 feet long and about36 feet wide. The steam engine shops The most remarkable of the build-ings of the lower dock is the one con-taining the principal offices. Thelength of its facade is 262 feet, and itcovers an area of -; acre. The base-ment contains the technical offices,and the ground floor the managersoffices, and a great roofed hall 70 feetlong and 45 feet wide, in which areexhibited the models of the ships builtby the firm. On the first and secondfloors are the offices of the construc-tors and draughtsmen. The top flooris occupied by a photographic studio,storerooms for designs, and a centraltelephone station. Amongst the other
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INSPECTING FINISHED PROJECTILES are remarkable on account of thewealth of their equipment, compris-ing about 400 machine tools of thelatest patterns. Also worth mention-ing, in the neighbourhood of theseshops, are the testing departments forsteam engines and boilers, and thetwo-story warehouse. buildings of the lower dockyard maybe mentioned the firemens quarters,the canteen, and the baths for theworkmen. The principal buildings of the up-per dockyard are the modelling shop,the foundry, the boiler shop, and thecentral electric establishment. The 456 CASSIERS MAGAZINE modelling shop is on the ground floorof a building of which two storiescontain the storerooms for the models. The foundry occupies a seven-baybuilding, covering an area of about 2\acres. It is provided with the mostrecent apparatus for lifting and con-veying, with the most improved cupo-las, with machinery to prepare thesand for moulding, to dry the moulds,and to finish the castings. It includesalso a small smith shop and

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