Factory and industrial management . so as to assure, as completely as possible, the safetyand the cleanliness of factories now in operation throughout theworld.* The first organization of this kind was founded by a great cap-tain of industry (Engel Dolfus, of Mulhouse) in 1867, and since thattime innumerable similar societies have sprung up. There exist alsomuseums similar to the one which is the subject of this article. Amongthe principal of these may be cited that at Vienna (1890), at Am-sterdam (1891), at Berlin (Charlottenburg, 1903). This last onehas cost about one-million marks and posse
Factory and industrial management . so as to assure, as completely as possible, the safetyand the cleanliness of factories now in operation throughout theworld.* The first organization of this kind was founded by a great cap-tain of industry (Engel Dolfus, of Mulhouse) in 1867, and since thattime innumerable similar societies have sprung up. There exist alsomuseums similar to the one which is the subject of this article. Amongthe principal of these may be cited that at Vienna (1890), at Am-sterdam (1891), at Berlin (Charlottenburg, 1903). This last onehas cost about one-million marks and possesses an annual budget offorty-thousand marks. The new Parisian museum was founded by the Association desindustriels de France contre les accidents du travail, established in1883 by Emil Muller, and was organized entirely by private gifts. * For a study of certain aspects of this question as developed in France, the reader isreferred to an article by M. Bcver which appeared in The Engineering Magazine inDecember, 1902, page 418. 209. 210 THE PARIS MUSEUM OF SAFETY DEVICES. 211 It had as its nucleus a unique collection of models and protective de-vices, brought together by the said association, the principal pro-moters of which were MM. Buquet, Cheysson, G. Dumont, Liebautand Perisse. Its purpose, inspired by philanthropy, is to indicate tothe present patrons the precautions to be taken, the devices and themeans to employ, for protecting their workmen against risks of allsorts—unhealthful atmosphere; dangers from machines and transmis-sion devices, harmful dusts, high electric voltages, poisoning, etc. To start with, the new museum consists at present of three the main hall, of which Figure i shows a general view, a seriesof diverse machines are grouped, their protective devices beingpainted in red so as to stand out by contrast. The first machine inthe picture is a carding-machine, exhibited by the Societe alsaciennede construction mecanique. This machine, which is of
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