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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
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ringeight years of naval construction, but we have not yet rebuilt ournavy. In fact, about all we can reasonably say is that we have con-clusively demonstrated our domestic capacity to rebuild it. I have heard it said that, no matter what our progress in ship-building has been, we had to begin with English plans. Unquestion-ably English plans were procured at the start ; so were French plans.But they were used for reference, not for imitation. No naval shiphas been built exactly after any foreign plan. They have all beenmodified more or less. In fact, the object in having the foreign plansbefore us was to see what should be avoided as well as adopted, andin some cases the former desideratum proved the more important ofthe two. Foreign plans are as much sought after now as they were atthe beginning, and for the same reason. But, withal, our best ships—the New York ; the Columbia and ^Minneapolis ; the Indiana class ofbattleships, the Iowa and Brooklyn ; and the Kearsarge and Kentucky
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