American Engineer and Railroad Journal, Հատոր 81Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1907 |
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Էջ 69 - Taylor explained, a process in which "the workman is told minutely just what he is to do and how he is to do it, and any improvement he makes upon the instructions given to him is fatal to success
Էջ 38 - ... illustrated ; two large folding plates that show the positions of the valves of both inside or outside admission type, as well as the links and other parts of the gear when the crank is at nine different points in its revolution, are especially valuable in making the movement clear. These employ sliding cardboard models which are contained in a pocket in the cover.
Էջ 70 - The time is fast going by for the great personal or individual achievement of any one man standing alone and without the help of those around him. And the time is coming when all great things will be done by the cooperation of many men in which each man performs that function for which he is best suited, each man preserves his own individuality and is supreme in his particular function, and each man at the same time loses none of his originality and proper personal initiative, and yet is controlled...
Էջ 409 - ... attached to the boiler to be removed and cleaned whenever the boiler is washed out pursuant •to the foregoing requirements of this section ; also to keep all steam valves, cocks and joints, studs, bolts and seams in such repair that they will not at any time emit steam in front of the engineer, so as to obscure his vision. No locomotive shall hereafter be driven in this state unless the same is equipped and cared for in conformity with the provisions of this section; but nothing here contained...
Էջ 354 - Such study divides itself into three parts, as follows : An analysis of the operation into its elements. A study of these elements separately. A synthesis, or putting together the results of our study. This is recognized at once as simply the ordinary scientific method of procedure when it is desired to make any kind of an investigation, and it is well known...
Էջ 304 - Every person in the United States is using over six times as much wood as he would use if he were in Europe. The country as a whole consumes every year between three and four times more wood than all of the forests of the United States grow in the meantime.
Էջ 203 - ... apprentice work can be installed at a greater number of the shops than would be otherwise practicable, by using talent already in the service of the company. There are other interesting features connected with the system, especially the arrangement for evening classes for employees other than apprentices. The men in the shops, both foremen and workmen, have evinced considerable interest in the apprentice schools, and there has been a demand for evening schools to give them the same advantages....
Էջ 39 - Valve Gear, with questions and answers on breakdowns. The questions with full answers given will be especially valuable to firemen and engineers in preparing for an examination for promotion. 245 pages.
Էջ 69 - In a company whose employees all told, including officers and salesmen, number about one hundred and fifty men, we have succeeded in more than doubling the output of the shop, and in converting an annual loss of 20 per cent upon the old volume of business into an annual profit of more than 20 per cent upon the new volume of business, and at the same time rendering a lot of disorganized and dissatisfied workmen contented and hard working, by insuring them an average increase of about 35 per cent in...
Էջ 202 - Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, under the direction of Mr. LH Turner, superintendent of motive power, and Mr. WP Richardson, mechanical engineer. These classes met twice a week and attendance of the apprentices was made compulsory. Mechanical drawing was taught at these four schools, the method being...