[Yale University]: Dunning, A.R.:

$900 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

YALE SENIOR INSPECTION TRIP FOR MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS. MARCH 27 - APRIL 3, 1929 [typescript title]. A unique and interesting typescript documenting a Yale senior trip to visit various industries. The author, A.R. Dunning, Class of 1929, writes in the Foreword:"In writing my reminiscenes [sic] of the inspection trip, I am afraid that I have not followed a definite enough course of procedure, but have allowed myself to wander about aimlessly, writing what I felt when and how it pleased me....And I am sure that I will better appreciate my own childish viewpoints herein expressed, when, as an old man I look back and find one tangible evidence of my college life, than to discover that the transportation facilities of National Dog Biscuit were insufficient thirty years ago."He does, however, thank Professor Seward and the rest of the faculty for organizing the trip and for their excellent choice of the industries visited.The trip covered four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan) and included visits to fourteen businesses: AT Wright Aeronautical Corp.; Edison Laps Works & Lighting Institute of General Electric; Hardwick & Magee Wilton Rugs & Carpets; High Pressure Pumping Station; Sears, Roebuck; Carnegie Steel Co. Rolling Mills Homestead Plant; Carnegie Steel Co. Blast Furnaces; Carnegie Steel By-Product Coke Plant; Universal Portland Cement Co.; Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.; Cadillac Motor Car Co.; and Ford Motor Co. Dunning gives brief repor

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.