. Factory and industrial management. sefulness, and special knowledge is required inthese departments, but they require for the practical applications oftheir ideas many materials, tools, and devices Vvhich are purely mechan-ical or mechanically produced. Thus it happens that the principal andmost important department will usually be the mechanical department—the department of motive power and machinery—under the leader-ship of a man who must be an all-around engineer—a man of tact, goodjudgment, and plenty of horse sense. He has under his care the design,maintenance, and control of power-stat
. Factory and industrial management. sefulness, and special knowledge is required inthese departments, but they require for the practical applications oftheir ideas many materials, tools, and devices Vvhich are purely mechan-ical or mechanically produced. Thus it happens that the principal andmost important department will usually be the mechanical department—the department of motive power and machinery—under the leader-ship of a man who must be an all-around engineer—a man of tact, goodjudgment, and plenty of horse sense. He has under his care the design,maintenance, and control of power-station machinery, rolling stock,and all electro-mechanical apparatus. Under him are first shaped theplans which later involve the thought and labor of all the engineer-ing departments and call into requisition the varied industrial re-sources of the country at large. The department of motive powerand machinery is especially under consideration in this paper, and togive an idea of the magnitude of the operations involved it may be. THE GENERATION OF IdWER FROM the top is a 15,000-ton coal-storage pile, unloaded from cargo by mechanical appliancesand taken to stations by electric coal cars running in tunnels under the piles. In themiddle is a battery of stoker-fired boilers, to which coal is delivered by push carsraised by a log chain. At the bottom is a generating station containing25,000 horse power of Corliss engines and General Electric direct-current generators. 513 514 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. well to state in detail and in round numbers the variety of apparatuscontrolled or maintained by the different engineering departments of astreet-railway company, all depending largely on this departmentfor maintenance and repairs. In the railway company under consid-eration the equipment in all departments approximates the followingproportions:— I. There are about 3,450 surface and elevated cars, both closedand open, of 9 different styles, and 300 plows and service cars
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