Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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As in the legal profession the deoisions of the judges a * entered and published, thus forming a basis of te precedent for future use, so also it is desirable that records of important engineering work should be published in order that we may benefit by the experience of others. Many of the larger engineering undertakings are the result of the co-operation of several engineers who are proficient in their respective fields. It is, of course, customary to have a chief engineer at the head of any important enter-* prise, nevertheless, the work which he supervises is usually the product not of himself alone but of those also who are associated with him. If frequently happens that on large undertakings experts in various lines of the work are employed and the duty of the chief then consists in determining the general scope of the work, - the speoial features being developed by these experts in their respective lines. For example: the building of a large steel plant requires expert metallurgical engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and structural engineers. It is manifest then that as the work becomes of great magnitude it is most important that accurate reoords of the same should be made available. Those records can best be promulgated through the proceedings of Teohnioal Societies. Such published proceedings find their way around the world and furnish material to the Universities whereby recruits may be trained to successfully solve the problems of the day. hi
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