Factory and industrial management (1891) (14783812882)

Identifier: factoryindustria23newy (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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00 miles of steel rail with 1,100 miles of overhead andunderground trolley and feed wire, each with a multitude of electro-mechanical devices and connections and special appliances maintainedor furnished by the mechanical department. 6. A store house filled with large supplies of the many thousandsof appliances, either made in the manufacturing department or sup-plied by outside firms and subject to the order of the various depart-ments requiring a number of freight or service cars and the handlingof a vast number of separate items monthly. Scanning the list of apparatus enumerated above it can be seen thatthe design of new^ equipment and care of old, the repairs, changes, tests,and operations, require a verv large force of men skilled by long experi-ence with its many and various eccentricities. All railway apparatusis still in the process of evolution, and perhaps always \\\\\ be. so thatthe new problems coming up for solution every day are manifold and 5i6 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE.
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ONE OF FIVE GIANT POWER-STATION UNITS.Vertical cross-compound engines of 8,000 liorse power eacii, maximum, direct-connected to direct-current generators. intricate and new devices are constantly being presented for trial orcriticism. Whatever the size of the system, the manufacturing, repairs, andequipment operations should preferably be centralized near a largepower station, and usually are so placed; but if that is not convenient,a large tract of land should be secured near a waterway and railwayswhere land is cheap and abundant, and here should be laid out a sys-tem of one- or at the most two-storv buildings, convenient to trans- MECHANICAL ESGINBERING OF ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. 517 fer ways, steam and street-railway tracks, and built with fire-proof ma-terials. They should have proper sanitary, ventilating, heating, andlighting apparatus, and afford space for all the mechanical depart-ments, draughting rooms, store rooms, lumber, and building materials.Here cars are built, equipped, a