Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Engineering Society was addressed last evening by Mr. A. H. Johnson on "Railroad Signalling." The lecture was given in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and was well attended. After a few introductory remarks the speaker gave a short history of railroad signalling and then proceeded to illustrate the modern methods of signalling. The immense strides which have recently been made in this work are mostly due to the application of electricity. If an equal amount of progress can be made in the next few years, a railway accident will practically become an impossibility...
...Johnson, consulting engineer for the Johnson Railroad Signal Co., will give an illustrated lecture on "Railway Signalling." The public are cordially invited...
...VARSITY GLEE, BANJO AND MANDOLIN CLUBS.- All members and ushers be at Columbus Ave. Station, Boston and Albany Railroad, at 5.26 to take train for Wellesley. Reception and supper at Freeman Cottage. Concert at 8. If any men cannot take this train they must leave their names at 18 Hollis before...
Second year-Engineering Mathematics, Structural and Machine Drawing, Mechanism, Railroad Engineering, Mineralogy, Quantitative Analysis, Elementary Geology, and Geological Surveying...
...offices; seven are superintendents and assistants in large plants, and one has charge of all repair work and special designing in the largest locomotive works in the country. Three manage concerns which they own entirely or in part, two are superintendents of gas improvement companies, three have responsible railroad posititions, and the last is a naval constructor, working on important government contracts. Investigation of college classes recently graduated at Pennsylvania shows that men out of college four years were earning on an average $1540 a year, while the graduates of three years' and two years' standing were earning respectively...