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

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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