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...early youth Mr. Smith was a clerk in an iron foundry. Later he obtained a mechanical education, and became an engineer and contractor. Under his direction were constructed the government sea wall around Governor's Island, a sea wall at Tompkinsville, S. I.; the Race Rock lighthouse off New London, and the foundation for the statue of Liberty, in the New York harbor. He has done much landscape water color painting, charcoal work and pen and ink illustrating, and has lectured extensively...
...architect and contractor, F. B. Furbush, of Cambridge, expects to have the extension completed by the middle of July...
...architect and contractor, F. B. Furbush, of Cambridge, excepts to complete the extension by the middle of July...
...Gilbreth, contractor for architectural and engineering construction, will give an illustrated lecture before the Engineering Society this evening at 8 o'clock, in Pierce 110 on "System and Organization in a Contractor's Work." The illustrations will show systematized attempts at organization in works of building and engineering. Mr. Gilbreth will include in his lecture a plan of a school building covering an acre that was built in two months and seventeen days. He will also describe the organization process used in building the town of Woodland, Maine, which includes a dam 2000 feet long, machine shops, railroads, paper, sulphide...
...HARVARD ENGINEERING SOCIETY. "System and Organization in a Contractor's Work." (Illustrated.) Mr. Frank B. Gilbreth, General Contractor, New York City. Pierce...