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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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hibition, made of hollow fire-brick, reinforced with T bars laid between the courses, and it wasexplained that they possessed the avlvantage of being- much coolerin summer and warmer in winter than the usual type of dwelling.The fire-proof door has for many years been deemed essential inwarehouses and mercantile buildings. Now we learn from theMuseum of Safety Devices that there are on the market fire-proofdoors finished to represent wood and available for dwellings. Fur-thermore, these doors with their enamel finish are absolutely sanitaryand offer no change for dirt or germs to lodge. Safety containingvessels for gasoline or naphtha are exhibited in which by means ofgauze and suitable valves in the various containers the danger ofexplosion is reduced to a minimum. The Stillman Safety Lamp con-sists of a metal bowl or font with a false bottom and a vertical per-forated wick chamber into which the oil passes from an intermediatespace packed with wool and holding the oil in suspension.
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DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE SAFETY GASOLINE TANK AND KEROSENE LA .MP. With fire, as has been suggested, the American railway and theelectric street car contribute most effectively to the needless mortalityof the nation. If at this stage of American civilization and develop-ment we must consider the deadly grade crossing a necessity in wellsettled communities, then its proper and adequate protection shouldbe demanded and sufficient notice of a trains approach should be 340 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. given to all crossing the tracks. At the exhibition is shown a modelof track gates from the Automatic Gate and Crossing Co., whichwithout any operator protect the crossing in addition to giving warn-ing by bell and danger lights of the approach of a train within twomiles. Next to grade crossings there is a large element of dangerfrom collision in working a single-track high-speed trolley line.This can be prevented by various automatic signal devices, one of themost recent of which, the Nachod Auto

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