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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the best practice was observed, show-ing how profitable and reasonable the use of such machinery wasconsidered. A collection of clippings from newspapers reportingvarious accidents was prominently displayed, but it was only the col-lection and the bringing together of so many similar items from allover the United States—not the individual articles—that impressedthe average visitor, so commonplace was this sort of information.Perhaps more impressive were the photographs of the scenes of vari-ous accidents, which plainly showed that many of them could be pre-vented by the use of the simplest precautions. Then there were thesilent witnesses in the form of plates from defective boilers, portionsof failed gear or fly-wheels, broken blocks and hooks, each with thesad story of death and accident which suitable forethought and in-spection would have obviated. Many of the various safety devices and protected machines werein operation during the exhibition, and where full-size machines were
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ANOTHER NOTEWOKTIIY CONTINENTAL EXAMPLE. THE ROYAL BAVARIAN INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM. Machinery hall, and collections illustrative of accidents and their causes.^ - 334 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAFETY DEVICES. 335 not available or feasible, numerous models or photographs wereshown. Perhaps the most striking feature of the exhibition was itsdiversity, extending as it did from automatic launching lifeboats toprotected elevator shafts and circular saws. Indeed some of the sim-pler devices really aroused more enthusiasm than the complicatedmodels, as their application was so simple and obvious. Thus in placeof the usual square-headed set-screw used to hold a belt pulley on ashaft there was shown a screw without a head which by using a keywrench fitting in a square hole could be screwed in tight withoutleaving any projections to catch the w^orkmans hand, as frequentlyhappens with disastrous consequences. As loose nuts are the causeof so many accidents it was natural that several forms of safety bol

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