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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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coveringsof cement, wood, or stone, except in recent 304 REVIEW OF THE ENGINEERING PRESS. examples of the new style of buildingsdestined for brasseries or drinking-halls,where the iron construction is left visible,and emphasized by means of bronze orcolor painting and mosaic work, or, again,in the few examples of well-known workwhere the architect has endeavored to ob-tain a decorative effect by means of ironlintels and columns. It adds to the above that the cementarme has proved its strength and its ad-vantages when employed for floors, parti- CEMENT ARME tO>JSTRUQTION .. TLOORS . PILLARS against the other methods of employingcement arme. Its adoption for the newbuilding for the Society of Civil Engineersis strong proof of its merit. One of theconditions under which the contracts weregiven out was that they should be let tomembers of the society only, and thearchitect is also, we believe, a member ofthe society. Tests of Fire-Proof Material. Tests of fire-proof materials were made
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tions, walls, and roofs, both as regards itsconveniences for internal arrangementsand its economy, and as regards the man-ner in which it lends itself to modernschemes of polychrome decoration. The illustration of the Hennebique sys-tem represents it as employed for floors,pillars, and arches in the building abovenamed. The engraving is self-explanatory.The system has hitherto been used chieflyfor industrial purposes in the north ofFrance, and is said to maintain its ground THE HENNEBIQUE SYSTEM. on Sept. 3, and again on Sept. 10, in NewYork, under the supervision of the depart-ment of buildings. The Engineering News(Sept. 17) gives an account of both tests,and asummaryoftheirresults. ThetestonSept. 3 was of the material, cement arme, avariety manufactured by the well-knownJohn A. Roeblings Sons Co., and consistingof wire netting embedded in cement orconcrete, the floors having the netting inthe form of an arch between the lower flan-ges of the floor beams, and sometimes ARCHITECTURE

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