Industrial Engineering: A Handbook of Useful Information for Managers, Engineers, Superintendents, Designers, Draftsmen and Others Engaged in Constructive Work, Parte1

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W. M. Barr Company, 1918
 

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Página 8 - Society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art of directing the Great Sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal...
Página 8 - ... in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce, and in the construction and adaptation of machinery, and in the drainage of cities and towns...
Página 54 - I can only assert my belief that for the sake of the country, for the sake of the wage-earner himself, and for the healthy development of trade organisation, legislative intervention will have to come sooner or later.
Página 51 - ... it is the business of the State to see that it is not defrauded and that the country's wealth is not misused, even in private hands.
Página 34 - Under encouragement of every kind, with an automatic savings scheme, including a bank on the premises, the savings do not amount to more than about 5 per cent. of the total...

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