Identifier: factoryindustria35newy (find matches)
Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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a standardpractice in engineering abbreviations and symbols, and to apply thatpractice to their work in all departments. They should have exer-cise in the preparation of technical reports on their laboratory andtesting work, of accounts of inspection trips, and the like. Let themget the atmosphere of engineering work about them early. It would be useful to have the current technical magazines regu-larly reviewed, under supervision. The information thus obtained,when properly condensed, could form the basis of a card index forthe use of the faculty and the students generally, and would alsoconstitute a part of the students embryo handbook. It was the argument of Comenius that the proper education ofthe mind should comprise, last of all, the training of the criticalfaculties. The general education of the student is not complete untilhe can distinguish between what is mentally good and what is men-tally evil. The study of English in the technical school should trainthis critical faculty.
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Porter compressed-air locomotive, lumberlyards of International Harvester Co.'s McCormick plant. Cylinders 7 by 12, gauge 30 in., weight 13,000 lbs. H. K. Porter Co. HOISTING MACHINERY FOR THE HANDLING OF MATERIALS. By T. Kennard Thomson. III. SHOVELS, DREDGES, AND SPECIAL UNLOADERS. Mr. Thomson here concludes his study of handling machinery, which began in the issueof The Engineering Magazine for March last. The preceding parts havo covered theinfluence vi^hich such appliances exercise in lowering unit costs, the forms especially suitedto excavation and construction work, and cranes, cableways, and transporting conveyors.—The Editors. IN the many forms of good buckets in use—the clam-shell,orange-peel, bottom-dump and trip buckets, are a m .i^ludeof variations of design and size, the latter running from ^cubic-yard capacity up to 8 or lo yards, not to mention the big lo-ton automatic ore unloaders. A simple form of bucket used almostuniversally in caisson work is 29 inches in dia

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