File:Railway mechanical engineer (1916) (14760349432).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,128 × 1,584 pixels, file size: 418 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English:

Identifier: railwaymechanica90newy (find matches)
Title: Railway mechanical engineer
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors:
Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
fground asbestos mixed with engine oil is reported by J. M.Ericson to give fine results. It never gets hard and is alwavsready for use.—American Machinist. Low-Grade Fuels ix Producers.—It is pointed out ina paper recently published by the Bureau of Mines thatwithin the past five or .--ix years marked progress has beenmade in Europe in the utilization of various kinds of refusematerial not ordinarily given much consideration. The man-ufacturers of gas producers report the successful use of alarge variety of fuels, including wood shavings, wood blocks.sawdu:-t. excelsior, coffee husks, rice husks, cocoanut shells,straw and spent tan bark. The figures on fuel consumptionreported by the manufacturers are about as follows: Withreasonably dry wood (say mixed oak, ash and elm) the con-sumption has been as low as 2 lb. per b.hp.-hr.: with sawdustthe consumption averages 3l4 lb. per b.hp.-hr.; and withspent tan bark containing 50 per cent moisture it is about4 _. lb.—American Machinist.
Text Appearing After Image:
One of the distinctive features of the Santa Fe apprenticesystem is the annual conference of the instructors; this yearthe meeting was held at Topeka, Kan., May 25, 26 and 27.At these meetings the instructors are addressed by variousmechanical department officers, and the important questionsarising throughout the year are discussed under the directionof F. W. Thomas, the supervisor of apprentices. This yearthe conference considered more particularly the system oftraining freight car carpenter apprentices and boilermakerapprentices. Both of these subjects are so important andthe discussions were so valuable that they have been madeinto two separate articles which will be published in theAugust issue of the Railway Mechanical Engineer. Thisarticle deals more particularly with the general problemswhich were considered at the conference. The Atchison. Topeka &: Santa Fe has the distinction ofoperating the most successful apprentice system in the UnitedStates. On May 31, 1916, this roa

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14760349432/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Volume
InfoField
90
Flickr tags
InfoField
  • bookid:railwaymechanica90newy
  • bookyear:1916
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Railroad_engineering
  • booksubject:Engineering
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Railroad_cars
  • bookpublisher:New_York__N_Y____Simmons_Boardman_Pub__Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:380
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
Flickr posted date
InfoField
27 July 2014


Licensing[edit]

This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14760349432. It was reviewed on 23 September 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

23 September 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current19:38, 23 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 19:38, 23 September 20152,128 × 1,584 (418 KB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': railwaymechanica90newy ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Frailwaymechanica90newy%2F fin...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Railway_mechanical_engineer_(1916)_(14760349432).jpg&oldid=597202379"