Posts Tagged ‘Cassier’s Magazine’
Washington Roebling Biography — Builder of the Brooklyn Bridge
[Republished from Cassier’s Magazine 1902]. AS an engineer Colonel Roebling’s first work was in assisting his father, the late John A. Roebling, to build the Allegheny Suspension Bridge. This was shortly after graduation from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N. Y., in 1857. Since that time international fame has been his as builder of…
Read MoreThe Apprenticeship System In America
With all the buzz about STEM programs, I thought it would be great to republish this article about apprenticeship which has fallen from education as I know it. [the following article is republished from Cassier’s Magazine November 1906 under the original title “The Apprenticeship System in America: Its Relation to Trade Schools and the Influence…
Read MoreCity of the Future — Cassier’s Magazine 1913
Lord Kelvin Biography
[Repubished from Cassier’s Magazine from the original article by By J.D. Cormack, B.Sc., M.I.E.E. published 1899.] AT the close of a century, unequalled in the history of the world for progress in civilisation and science, looking backward, and tracing the growth of old, the beginning and development of new sciences and the close union of…
Read MoreThomas Edison Orange Laboratory Group Picture circa 1893
List of Orange Laboratory Staff 1 THOS. A. EDISON. 2 CH. BATCHELOR. 3 W. S. MALLORY. 4 J. F. RANDOLPH. 5 J. W. HARRIS. 6 J. OTT. 7 THOS. MAGUIRE. 8 J. W. GLADSTONE 9 CH. BROWN 10 A.Y. STEWART 11 W. MILLER 12 J.W. AYLESWORTH 13 J.T. MARSHALL 14 A.E. KENNELLY 15 P. KENNY…
Read MoreBiography Louis Cassier – Founder of Cassier’s Magazine
[reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 30 May-Oct. 1906] Among the victims of the appalling railway disaster on the London & South-Western Railway, on July 1, was Louis Cassier, the founder of this magazine. Speeding from Plymouth to London, the fast night express, which carried mails and passengers from the American Line steamship “New York,” left…
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