Identifier: railwaylocomotiv24newy Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: Railroads Locomotives Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: g youwhat kind of a tool your cutter is. Itis not a hand tool, it is a machine tool.A similar mistake would be made if oneshould speak of a hammer as a ham-mer-handle. Handle is the noun andthe adjective hammer tells you that itis not the handle for a spade, but thewhole instrument is not a hammerhandle. Industrial Safety. Some very interesting and instructivereading may be found in the pages ofa smali publication called the Journalof Industrial Safety which is issued bythe Industrial Safety Association. Thegood work of safeguarding the lifeand limbs of workers in shops and fac-tories is making some progress, thoughmuch yet remains to be done. Thegenerally accepted railroad crossingsign contained the startling words,Stop, Look, Listen! It is one of thebest ever invented. Chemists have agreed that the em-blem of the skull and crossbones on abottle shall convey the idea of a poisonor that death lurks in the solution.This emblem is too gruesome or tooemphatic for a danger less than death Text Appearing After Image: HANGER SIGN FOR LIVE WIRES, ETC. which may lurk around the factory orshop. An emblem which is used in oneshop is shown in our illustration. Itimplies the danger of death from electricenergy. This is a comprehensible emblem forits special purpose. What is needed is an emblem equally serviceable whichmay be adopted or accepted at dangerpoints as a warning sign. It is noteasy to create such an emblem. Oneindustrial concern has used a red staron a white ground, for the warn-ing where death is not likely to followan accident. We would like to hearfrom our readers on the subject. Thestar is good, but it does not tell itsstory at a glance. See what you cando. Exhibit of Car Wheel Lathe.The Niles-Bement-Pond Company, ofNew York, will exhibit a power-manipu-lated Pond car wheel lathe at the MasterMechanics and the Master Car Buildersconventions at Atlantic City, N. J., thisJune. The M. M. convention takesplace on the 14th, 15th, and 16th ofJune, and the M. C. B. comes off on the Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability – coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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