Word: railroad
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...only to take on new life in the sixteenth century. The need of the civil engineer became greater with construction of roads, bridges, docks, and harbors. The many inventions of the early nineteenth century gave added impulse to the profession, and engineers began to be differentiated. There arose the railroad engineer; the mechanical engineer, who was concerned with the development of power; the sanitary engineer, and the mining engineer. Meanwhile the scope of the civil engineer was ever broadening and his field being again subdivided with the advent of electricity, the study of hydraulics and of applied chemistry. Structures have...
Professor Swain has been for over 20 years consulting engineer of the Massachusetts State Railroad Commissioners, and in that capacity has built a number of bridges, besides constructing the Boston subways. He has been a member of the Boston Transit Commission since its organization in 1894 and has done much to simplify traffic conditions in Boston. He has also studied the subject of the conservation of the natural resources of the nation, and last spring was appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the national commission in charge of that work. He is well known as an author of scientific...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on "Engineering as a Profession" in the Living Room of the union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. After being graduated from the Institute of Technology in 1877, Professor Swain studied engineering abroad. He has been an engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission for 20 years, a member of the Boston Transit Commission for 15 years, and engineer for various bridges across the Connecticut and Merrimac Rivers...
...LECTURE. "Passenger Business of Railroads." Mr. W. C. Hope, of New York, General Passenger Agent of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey. Emerson...
...LECTURE. "Passenger Business of Railroads." Mr. W. C. Hope, of New York, General Passenger Agent of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey. Emerson...