Specifications and Contracts: A Series of Lectures Delivered (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Soon after Dr. Waddell's lecture on Engineering Contracts appeared in The Polytechnic a large portion of it was copied by Engineering News, and at the same time one of the editorial stafi of the latter paper wrote him offering to bring out the lecture in pamphlet or book form. Dr. Waddell replied that he had already made arrangements for publishing the lecture in pamphlet form for complimentary distribution; but suggested that a book containing not only the lecture referred to, but also his previous one on Specifications, supplemented by data for numerous examples for specification, and contract writing by students, and supplemented perhaps also by notes by his friend, Mr. John Cassan Wait, the well known attorney and author, might prove useful in engineering schools.
In View of Dr. Waddell's peculiar and characteristic method of treating both subjects, in that he deals with the theory or science of preparing these technical documents rather than by following the ordinary method of making numerous and Gopious quotations from similar documents actually prepared and used, the editors of Engineering News adopted immediately his suggestion and arranged with both Dr. Wadde'll and Mr. Wait for the preparation of the necessary manuscript.
The publishers believe that this little book, if generally used as a text-book in engineering schools, and if each student thereof is required to prepare by its means a complete Specification and an exhaustive contract based on the Examples given, would do more than any other text-book or combination of text-books to perfect young engineers in the writing of technical documents.
Dr. Waddell stipulated that the price of the book should be kept as low as possible, so as to make its purchase no hardship for the students; and this has been done.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Soon after Dr. Waddell's lecture on Engineering Contracts appeared in The Polytechnic a large portion of it was copied by Engineering News, and at the same time one of the editorial stafi of the latter paper wrote him offering to bring out the lecture in pamphlet or book form. Dr. Waddell replied that he had already made arrangements for publishing the lecture in pamphlet form for complimentary distribution; but suggested that a book containing not only the lecture referred to, but also his previous one on Specifications, supplemented by data for numerous examples for specification, and contract writing by students, and supplemented perhaps also by notes by his friend, Mr. John Cassan Wait, the well known attorney and author, might prove useful in engineering schools.
In View of Dr. Waddell's peculiar and characteristic method of treating both subjects, in that he deals with the theory or science of preparing these technical documents rather than by following the ordinary method of making numerous and Gopious quotations from similar documents actually prepared and used, the editors of Engineering News adopted immediately his suggestion and arranged with both Dr. Wadde'll and Mr. Wait for the preparation of the necessary manuscript.
The publishers believe that this little book, if generally used as a text-book in engineering schools, and if each student thereof is required to prepare by its means a complete Specification and an exhaustive contract based on the Examples given, would do more than any other text-book or combination of text-books to perfect young engineers in the writing of technical documents.
Dr. Waddell stipulated that the price of the book should be kept as low as possible, so as to make its purchase no hardship for the students; and this has been done.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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