Railway master mechanic (microform) (1895) (14738637116)

Identifier: railwaymastermec33newy (find matches)
Title: Railway master mechanic (microform)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp.)
Contributing Library: MIT Libraries
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n hours each week inthe shops, becoming thereby familiar with the methods andprocesses of pattern-making and of the foundry and forgeshop and finally of the machine shop. This shop experienceforms the groundwork upon which the later instruction inmachine design is based. Simultaneously with his shop prac-tice the student spends an equal amount of time in drawingand in elementary design. Those taking the course in rail-way civil engineering receive shop instruction during thefirst year only, and in the second year they begin, in itsstead, the study of surveying, spending each week abouttwelve hours in the field. Throughout these years of thecourse the work in science and shop practice is supplementedand balanced by the study of rhectoric and composition andof either English or French or German, which are requiredof all students in engineering. Military drill and work inthe gymnasium are also required of all students during thisstage of their course. Having the preliminary training here
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Dynomometer Car, University of Illinois. for an administrative position solely because of his techni-cal professional attainments. His promotion depends ratherupon his ability to grasp and properly evaluate all phases—financial, technical, and economic—of the problems presentedfor his solution. The effort is therefore made to emphasizethis point of view and to stimulate interest in these directions,not only by the method of presenting the technical work butby the incorporation of other than purely technical subjectsin these courses. Toward this end there is included, for ex-ample, among other general subjects in the engineeringcourses, such work as economics; and in the course in trans-portation there is enough of technical engineering work togive an understanding of the problems arising in the engi-neering departments. The courses in railway civil engineering and railway me-chanical engineering are intended primarily for those whoexpect to enter the service of steam roads in the