Excerpt from The Engineer as an Economist: An Address Given at the Commencement Exercises of the Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial School of Technology, June 9, 1905 On the principle that it is cheaper to prevent a fire than to pay a loss, insurance companies all over the country place at the service of their clients engineers who will give professional services upon the construction of buildings, organization of fire-extinguishing equipment, installation of lighting apparatus, and even to details of lubrication and the ...
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Excerpt from The Engineer as an Economist: An Address Given at the Commencement Exercises of the Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial School of Technology, June 9, 1905 On the principle that it is cheaper to prevent a fire than to pay a loss, insurance companies all over the country place at the service of their clients engineers who will give professional services upon the construction of buildings, organization of fire-extinguishing equipment, installation of lighting apparatus, and even to details of lubrication and the operation of machin ery. Through corporate management in similar lines the English have developed, by their engineers, economies in the genera tion and utilization of steam for operation of mills, which ao complished results far superior to those in this country until within recent years, when the precedents did service to good designers who were also good copyists. Boiler insurance companies in this country also furnish to their clients expert service in the design of steam plant for economy of fuel as well as security. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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