The Engineering Index, 1901 (Classic Reprint)

Henry Harrison Suplee, J. H. Cuntz

ISBN 10: 0260505927 / ISBN 13: 9780260505927

Published by Forgotten Books, 2019

About this Item

Print on Demand. This book catalogs nearly 200 technical journals from the United States, Great Britain, Europe, and other countries, offering a fully-classified monthly index of their contents for the years 1896 through 1900. This third volume in the series was edited by Henry Harrison Suplee and assisted by J. H. Cuntz, along with a board of international contributors. The founding editor, J. B. Johnson, had initiated the index in 1884, publishing it in the Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies until 1895, when the work was turned over to Suplee's Engineering Magazine. This volume contains nearly 500 additional entries per year over the previous volumes, expanding the scope and depth of the index substantially. The author notes that current technical publications are the lifeblood of the practicing engineer, and that knowing where to look for information is just as important as the capacity to remember it - this index aims to assist with the former, allowing engineers to more efficiently reinforce their own experience with current knowledge. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Engineering Index, 1901 (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0260505927
• ISBN 13: 9780260505927
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: print-on-demand item
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Engineering

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Synopsis

Excerpt from The Engineering Index, 1901: An Industrial Review; Containing Illustrated Articles, Prepared by the Foremost Experts in the World's Engineering Practice; Reviews of the British, American and Continental Press; The Engineering Index, Covering the Technical Literature of the World

The capacity of the human memory is closely limited, even in the most highly developed instances, and with the vast and continually increasing stream of knowledge and record of experience in books, and in the flood of periodical litera ture, the most highly trained memories have long ago recognized the severity of this limitation.

To know where to look for information about a desired subject is, then, the aim of practical study of current literature; and this is the one thing which a man need not. Do for himself, but which he can have others do for him, while devoting his own time to the use of the information.

Books of reference, with the exception of those dealing 'with the fundamental principles of knowledge, must always be behind the times. They can never possibly overtake their source, because the material from which they are made must become current practice before it can find its place in book form; and the progressive engineer has long ago learned that current information, obtained from current technical publications, is the material which he must use to rein force his own experience.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.