Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Frank B. Gilbreth, a general contractor of New York City, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Motion Study as Applied in Industry" in Pierce 110 this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be under the auspices of the Engineering Society...
...Gilbreth is one of the few contractors who issue contracts on the basis of the cost plus a fixed sum. He is the author of several books on construction problems, and was the contractor of Dr. Sargent's gymnasium, the Cambridge Electric Power-house and many buildings in Boston and New York, as well as on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Gilbreth has done much to put contracting on a higher standard in this country...
...ENGINEERING SOCIETY. "Motion Study as Applied in Industry." Mr. Frank B. Gilbreth, General Contractor, of New York. Pierce 110, 8 P. M. This lecture will be of interest to students of Economics and Business Administration as well as to students of Engineering...
...Radcliffe Library, toward which Andrew Carnegie gave $75,000 on condition that an equal fund be raised. The exterior of the building is to correspond in appearance with the gymnasium, and is to be of about the same size. The architects are Winslow & Bigelow of Boston, and the contractor is J. E. Warren & Co. According to the contract the building will be completed on November...
...early youth Mr. Smith was a clerk in an iron foundry. Later he obtained a mechanical education, and became an engineer and contractor. Under his direction were constructed the government sea wall around Governor's Island, a sea wall at Tompkinsville, S. I.; the Race Rock lighthouse off New London, and the foundation for the statue of Liberty, in the New York harbor. He has done much landscape water color painting, charcoal work and pen and ink illustrating, and has lectured extensively...