Mr. Harry Harrison’s skill is shown in the “lay out” or typographical arrangement of the work and Mr. Henry J. Harms has contributed his careful supervision to each page of the book as it has gone through the press.
Lewis F. Lyne, Mechanical Engineer, has, amid his other responsible and active duties “passed upon” each page of the entire two volumes.
Mr. Lyne, it may be said, was one of the founders of the American Society of M. E.; he was also the first mechanical engineer on the editorial staff of the American Machinist in its early days, and contributed as editor and stockholder to its success. In his youth Mr. Lyne was apprentice in the machine shop of the Penn. R. R. and received his papers for full and faithful service.
Having been commodore of the Pavonia Yacht Club he has papers both as U. S. pilot and also as a marine engineer. He performed practical service both as locomotive fireman and was later superintendent of the Jersey City Electric Light Co. for a period of six and a half years.
Moreover Mr. Lyne was assistant master mechanic of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. (M. & E. Div.) for seven years and had charge of establishing their new shops at Kingsland, N. J. Few men have had so long and honorable a record as Lewis Frederick Lyne.
Credit is due also to Mr. Edward F. Stevens, assistant at the Yale University library, New Haven, Conn., for a careful reading of the two volumes for clerical errors, punctuation, etc. Mr. Stevens is a graduate of Colby University and a ripe scholar; moreover after leaving college he has had some twelve or more years experience in business and editing with a mechanical book publishing house widely known throughout England and the U. S.—a rare combination of useful experience.
The final revision of the two volumes has been made by one of the brightest young engineers in New York City, now consulting engineer and attorney at Patent Law with offices in the Flat Iron Building, corner of Twenty-third St. and Fifth Avenue—Mr. Edward Van Winkle.
He is associate member of the Am. Soc. M. E. and associate member of the Canadian Soc. of C. E. He was a Student in The Stevens Institute of Technology, and graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with the degree E. E.
These names should assure confidence in the contents of the work, which has been some years in preparation, and with nothing spared to make it trustworthy.
