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THE TECHNICAL SOCIETY AS AN INFLUENCE IN EDUCATION. By Mr* Albert Reiohmann, President, Western Society of Engineers, Chicago, Illinois* Your Dean in Engineering has conferred upon the speaker the honor of asking him to address you, and has suggested that he choose for his subject, "The Technical Society as an Influence in Education1*. Applying myself at once to the subject may I remind you that the development of any single industry invariably results in the development of other industries which spring therefrom until the ramifications are so extensive as to be almost inconceivable* For example: the advent of the steam locomotive immediately quickened fievelopment in the manufacture of iron and steel far beyond the conception of even the most optimistic. This was followed immediately by great activity in the development of the sciences of telegraphing, signalling, and interlocking. It also made possible, and indeed created the conditions which were responsible for the development of modern bridges, grain elevators and other storage plants. These in turn necessitated the development of industrial and commercial centers to a degree before unknown in history, and following or accompanying this development of the industrial centers came the study and development of such enterprises as municipal water supply,
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