American Machinist Volume 27

by Books Group

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 ...endurance under the severest of forced-draft conditions. The board regards the engineering or mechanical feature of the liquid-fuel problem as having been practically and satisfactorily solved. For manufacturing purposes the financial and supply features are the only hindrances to the use of crude petroleum as a standard fuel. For mercantile purposes the commercial and transportation features of the problem are existing bars which limit the use of oil fuel in merchant ships. For naval purposes there is the additional and serious difficulty to be overcome of providing a satisfactory and safe structural arrangement for carrying an adequate bunker supply. otherwise have been required. Many interesting views are given of the work at various points in different stages of the work. The September issue of The Cement Age, of New York, is devoted almost entirely to the extensive use and the variety of application of concrete in the construction of the New York subway. It contains articles from William Barclay Parsons, the chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission, and from all the division engineers. It shows that the use of concrete accomplished a great saving of time and money and enabled much of the work to be done by labor less skilled than would The Premium Plan In Great Britain. At page 1382 we referred to the condemnation of the Premium Plan by a committee of the Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades Federation and we give below a portion of an editorial thereon by The Engineer, of "The committee which has reported adversely on the premium system is very mixed, but it has at its head the boilermakers--a powerful and aggressive body--which has from the first shown violent opposition to any change from existing methods. The committee expresses i...

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Published January 1, 2012