The Prevention of Loss by Fire, Fifty Years' Record of Factory Mutual Insurance: Based on Thirty-Five Years' Personal Experience, With Suggestions for the Protection of Cities From Conflagrations. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Atkinson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

About one thousand million dollars of risks are now outstanding in all the Factory Mutual Companies of this kind. I began this treatise with the intention of only stating a few dry facts and figures, which will be found in the first few pages, regarding the early history of the system and my own connection with it, upon record with the semi centennial report of the Company of which I am President.

Pure Mathematics, Including Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, and Plane Trigonometry. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Atkins   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The special Object of the present work is to meet the requirements of the Science and Art Department's Examina tions in the first three stages of Pure Mathematics as set down in the Syllabus of the Science Directory. This will account for the arrangement of the subject matter. I hope, how ever, that it will be found not unsuitable as a general class book in Elementary Mathematics. In the Arithmetical Section my Object has been to deduce the rules from first principles, avoiding as much as possible algebraical considerations. The Geometry consists simply of the first three books of Euclid's Elements with exercises, the only point calling for remark being the marginal notes. I have found it useful in class teaching to put down upon a blackboard the chief steps of the proposition — just those points, in fact, which it is necessary to retain in the memory; and to encourage the pupil to depend upon himself for supplying the connecting links. This skeleton, as it were, of the proposition is placed in the margin, with the hope that it will be specially appreciated by many students of the industrial classes to whom the language Of Euclid is ordinarily an insuperable barrier. Particular reference is here made to such of those classes as have grown up to almost manhood without any mathematical training.

Science of Nutrition: Treatise Upon the Science of Nutrition. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Atkinson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I was not at first aware of the grave importance of this principle, and did not fully comprehend the fact that, if it should be established, it must work a complete revolution in the construction of cooking apparatus of almost every kind.