Journal of the Franklin Institute, Volume 173, Issues 1033-1036Pergamon Press, 1912 |
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Page 555 - In this way it often happens that the means which were thought to be the preventative of onerous conditions become the very agents through which such conditions are imposed. In fact, active and continuous competition between public utility corporations furnishing the same service to the same locality seems to be out of the question. This has been shown by experience. Such competition is also contrary to the very nature of things. Two distinct and separate corporations are not likely to remain separate...
Page 555 - It necessarily means that interest and maintenance must be earned on a much greater, if not twice as great, an investment and that the actual cost of operation is likely to be relatively higher. Competition in this service therefore usually means a bitter struggle and low rates, until one of the contestants is forced out of the field, when the rates are raised to the old level if not above it, or to a combination or understanding of some sort between them which also ultimately results in higher rates....
Page 386 - ... services are performed has the right to control and direct the individual who performs the services, not only as to the result to be accomplished by the work but also as to the details and means by which that result is accomplished. That is, an employee is subject to the will and control of the employer not only as to what shall be done but how it shall be done.
Page 109 - Thomson insisted that combustion is concerned not only with atoms and molecules, but also with electrons — ie, bodies of much smaller dimensions and moving with very high velocities, and suggested that "in reference to the influence of hot surfaces in promoting combustion, to which Professor Bone had drawn attention, it was not improbable that the emission of charged particles from the surface was a factor of primary importance.
Page 112 - Fourthly, a plane diaphragm such as this may be used in any position, ie, at any desired angle between the horizontal and vertical planes. Fifthly...
Page 288 - Mentioned by WM Acworth, the English economist, as a defect in American railroad organization. In the same statement, made on the eve of his departure February 1st last, he expressed surprise that the newspapers should give so much space to criticism of railroad efficiency. In his opinion American railroads are the most efficient in the world. He believes that the skeletons in the railroad cupboards have all been buried and that now the roads "would do well to open their cupboards and let the public...