Talk:Engineering Magazine

1890s

 * Engineering, an illustrated monthly magazine devoted to industrial progress, is the title of a new periodical, the first number of which was published in April. It is devoted to the popular treatment of engineering in all its branches, and is certainly worthy of support by all who desire to keep pace with industrial development throughout the world. The demand for this class of literature has already been tested by the publication of a number of special articles, in the various literary magazines of the country, which has proven that the reading public is appreciative of truth as well as fiction. The contents of the first number of Engineering are sufficiently varied to satisfy the taste of all who enjoy the wonderful triumphs of the engineer and inventor...
 * Electric Power, Vol. 3 (1891), p. 193
 * The quote "an illustrated monthly magazine devoted to industrial progress." cannot be traced back to an actual "Engineering magazine" source...yet??


 * A WORD OF INTRODUCTION
 * EDWARD ATKINSON, of Boston, the distinguished economist and statistician who writes in this number on the "Lessons of the Park Place Disaster," has contributed largely not only to the literature of fire-proof construction, but also to the solving of practical problems in actual building operations.
 * ANDREW CARNEGIE, the Pittsburgh iron-master and the distinguished author of "Triumphant Democracy," writes on "An American View of British Federation," a subject on which he doubtless is as well qualified to express opinions of weight as any other Anglo-American citizen.
 * JOSEPH KENDALL FREITAG, who writes of " The World's Fair Buildings," is the Assistant Engineer of the World's Columbian Exposition, and has sustained such a re- lation to the work in progress in Chicago, from the beginning, as to qualify him to write authoritatively on the subject.
 * C. J. NORWOOD:, of Frankfort, has been for years the State Inspector of Mines for Kentucky, a position which has made him familiar with the "Perils of Coal-Mining" on which he writes in this issue.
 * ALBERT WILLIAMS. JR., who discusses the question " Has the Limit Been Reached in Armored
 * EDWARD HENRY, who takes the conservative side of the very interesting discussion as to " What is the use of Building Laws?" is an architect by profession, a former resident of Philadelphia, and a gentleman of very liberal education and wide reading. He is in every way most admirably equipped...
 * Engineering Magazine, Vol. 2 (1891), p. 280
 * Engineering Magazine, Vol. 2 (1891), p. 280


 * The magazine is founded upon the idea of treating only the principles involved in engineering problems— which are always simple— to the end that our circle of readers may embrace, in addition to professional men, the thousands of intelligent business men who are interested or actively engaged in the industrial enterprises of our times, but who are without technical training. When accompanied by proper postage, manuscripts will be returned if no not available. All communications upon editorial subjects should be addressed to the Managing Editor, and correspondence in relation to business matters should be...
 * Engineering Magazine, Vol. 2 (1891), p. 280


 * The Engineering Magazine : devoted to industrial progress
 * "Title page, Vol 6" in : The Engineering Magazine, 1894

Early 20th century

 * It is almost exactly ten years since The Engineering Magazine laid down the first clear definitions of that system of manufacturing which has come to be known as distinctively American. During the entire intervening period, these pages have been the repository of the leading literature of the subject — of the classics in the science of engineering as applied to mechanical production. We have numbered among our contributors most of the great specialists in the practice of "Production Engineering" — the modern profession based upon this highly modern literature — and the fundamental principles of systematized specialized, standardized, and repetitive manufacture have been set forth more fully and lucidly here than anywhere else.
 * John Robertson Dunlap, ‎Arthur Van Vlissingen, ‎John Michael Carmody (1906) Factory and Industrial Management. Vol. 31. p. 801; Partly cited in: Yehouda Shenhav in: Haridimos Tsoukas, Christian Knudsen eds. (2005) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory, p. 181
 * Remark: Yehouda Shenhav postulated, that the Engineering Magazine contributed to the perception of an organization as a system.


 * ORGANIZATION has been termed a smaller sister of sociology, the science of human nature. Industrial organization, including that of transportation and commerce, reflects and typifies in a greater or less degree the sociological development ...
 * Engineering Magazine, Vol. 42. (1912), p. 481; Partly cited in Yehouda Shenhav (2003)
 * Remark: Yehouda Shenhav postulated, that The Engineering Engineering Magazine contributed to the definition of the study of organizations as a separate field.

1960s-1970s

 * Publisher John R. Dunlap had assigned the job to Arnold when Ford's unorthodox policies began to cause consternation in executive circles. Arnold had ...
 * Founded by Dunlap in 1891, the journal had long before become the quality magazine in the field of business management. in the field of business management. If Frederick W. Taylor was the father of scientific management [BlVi Apr.20'63,p94], the Engineering Magazine was most certainly the mother of the entire management movement — the family forum for every pioneer in management 20 years before efficiency became a national fad.
 * Dunlap boasted his magazine, with its issues over 200 or more pages, was "the monthly magazine of any kind published anywhere." Thanks to Frederic E. Ives' recent invention of photoengraving methods for the halftone illustration, the magazine could be lavish in its use of photographs. At 250 a copy, it was still a "buy" in an era otherwise dominated by the 100 and 150 magazines of McClure and Munsey. Edited "for proprietors, engineers, and managers," the Engineering Magazine was addressed to "the thousands of intelligent businessmen who are interested or actively engaged in the industrial enterprises of our times, but who are without technical training.
 * Business Week. Part 3. (1966), p. 127


 * [Dunlap]... climbed to the general managership of the Louisville Daily Commercial, thereafter becoming assistant to the editor of the Engineering & Mining Journal in new York. Before founding the Engineering Magazine in 1891, he had already established two successful trade journals
 * Charles B. Going and Henry H. Suplee, the first editors to join Dunlap on the cover, were similarly experienced. The one worked for many years in the chemical industries of Cincinnati. The other added practical experience at Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. to his mechanical engineering degree.
 * Among the staff of regular correspondents, Horace Arnold was the perfect example of the reporter who knew what he was writing about.
 * Business Week. Part 3. (1966), p. 127


 * The Engineering Magazine, 1(1), (1891), copyright by the Engineering Co. — "an illustrated monthly magazine devoted to industrial progress." It was later acquired by McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., and through mergers and changes of title successively became Industrial Management, The Engineering Magazine; Factory and Industrial Management; Factory Management and Maintenance; and Modern Manufacturing.
 * Allen Kent, ‎Harold Lancour (1973) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 8. p. 52

1990

 * This paper traces the genesis of the systems paradigm in the study of organizations in the United States back to nineteenth-century engineering practices. The empirical analyses for the period 1879-1932 are based on primary data collected from three journals in which the study of organizations was first codified and crystallized: the Engineering Magazine, the American Machinist, and the ASME Transactions. The evolution of the systems paradigm was found to be a product of at least three forces that form one interacting gestalt: (1) the efforts of mechanical engineers who sought industrial legitimation and whose professional paradigm spilled over into the organizational field; (2) the Progressive period (1900-1917) and its rhetoric on professionalism, equality, order, and progress; and (3) labor unrest, which was perceived as a threat to stable economic and social order. The paper provides a cultural and political reading, rather than a functional and economic one, to the emergence of managerial thought and the evolution of organizational theory.
 * Yehouda Shenhav. "From Chaos to Systems: The Engineering Foundations of Organization Theory, 1879-1932," in: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 557-585


 * These ideas traveled in professional circles and in U.S. industry. Individual such as Alexander Hamilton Church, John Dunlap, Horace Arnold, or Harrington Emerson - who were labeled by historians as "systematizers" - applied mechanical engineering methods to the administrative restructuring of firms (Calvert, 1967; Layton, 1971). The rise of this group marks the origin of management as a distinct phenomenon. In the late 1890s, an editorial in the Engineering Magazine acknowledged that there was "an awakening" in everything that was related to workshop systems and management (Engineering Magazine, March 1899: 1001)...
 * Yehouda Shenhav. "From Chaos to Systems: The Engineering Foundations of Organization Theory, 1879-1932," in: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 557-585


 * In 1912, the study of organizations was defined as a separate scientific field, "a smaller sister of sociology as a science of human nature" (Engineering Magazine, January 1912: 481-487). In 1915, John Dunlap, the editor of the Engineering Magazine documented what he labeled as the "historic events in the development of a new science" (Engineering Magazine, May 1915: 163-166), and in 1916, he inaugurated Industrial Management. This old-new magazine was devoted to issues of organizational systematization and became a professional outlet for organizational engineers...
 * Yehouda Shenhav. "From Chaos to Systems: The Engineering Foundations of Organization Theory, 1879-1932," in: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 564-565
 * Remark: The quote "smaller sister of sociology" is listed in more sources.

21st century

 * In the emerging organizational discourse during the Progressive Era the concept of system assumed coherence and autonomy and became an object of independent inquiry. As one systematizer wrote 'the important details of factory work are cared for by systems which are homogenous, flexible and efficient; systems which leave nothing to chance, but which care for the smallest and the most important details of factory work alike' (Engineering Magazine, Apr. 1902: 15±18). The editors of the American Machinist, a major outlet for engineering writings suggested: 'there is not a man, machine, operation or system in the shop that stands entirely alone. Each one, to be valued rightly, must be viewed as part of a whole' (American Machinist, 3 Mar. 1904: 294—6). In 1906 the editors of the Engineering Magazine recalled: 'It is almost ten years since the Engineering Magazine laid down the first clear definitions of that system of manufacturing which has come to be known as distinctively American'...
 * Haridimos Tsoukas, Christian Knudsen (2005) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory, p. 181


 * During the first half of the twentieth century, the rhetoric and practice of organizational systems have traveled from engineering circles to additional fields and became widely known in the American Industry and academia. In 1916 John Dunlap the editor of Engineering Magazine inaugurated Industrial Management which was devoted to issues of organizational systematization and became a professional outlet for organizational thoughts. Dunlap remained an editor until 1927, when Industrial Management merged with Factory to form Factory and Industrial Management a joint venture of the McGraw-Shaw and the McGraw-Hill publishing companies. In 1933 Factory and Industrial Management merged with two additional magazines Maintenance Engineering and Manufacturing Industries, to form a new periodical titled Factory Management and Maintenance. Simultaneously, new schools of managerial thought emerged in the United States, particularly the Human Relations school with its emphasis on industrial psychology (see Trahair 1984). Industrial Management established a regular section on personality and employment issues and more specific magazines such as ''System: The Magazine of Business and Personnel were established (see Business Periodicals Index and Abrahamson 1997). Many of the subsequent scholars of organizations were readers and writers for these magazines.
 * Yehouda Shenhav. "The historical and epistemological foundations of organization theory," in: Haridimos Tsoukas, Christian Knudsen (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory. 2007. p. 191


 * The embryonic engineering/management ideas that were published in these magazines were later collected and collated in books, written by individuals such as Harrington Emerson, Henry Gantt, Alexander Hamilton Church, Charles Bedaux, Chester Barnard, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick, James Mooney and Alan Reiley, Fritz Roethlisberger and William Dickson, or George Terry. These books were read by sociologists, psychologists, engineers, political scientists, and became the seedbed from which discourse on rational organizations grew.
 * Yehouda Shenhav. "The historical and epistemological foundations of organization theory," in: Haridimos Tsoukas, Christian Knudsen (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory. 2007. p. 191


 * Engineering Magazine was a witness to the workings of technical efficiency. Directed toward readers who were technically and mathematically trained it encouraged them to base their social contributions on professionalized status, primarily as mechanical engineers but also as physicists, civil engineers, and, increasingly after 1900, as industrial managers and governmental officials. Engineering Magazine came out monthly, each issue compact and dense, sitting heavy in the hand. It was composed of close-copy text, mathematical formulas and statistical charts and tables, alongside drawings and photographs of instruments, machines, and construction sites. Its reach was international and grounded in advanced formal training, its contributors' names often prefaced by the title "Professor." Between 1907 and 1911 several leaders in the Progressive efficiency movement published the first versions of their seminal works in the Engineering Magazine: Harrington Emerson's Twelve Principles of Eff1ciency appeared in serial form from 1909 to 1911, and the magazine was among the first to publish Gantt's influential efficiency charts.
 * Jennifer Karns Alexander (2008) The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control. p. 82


 * The Engineering Index, the precursor to the digital index Compendex, finds its origins in a binational journal called the Engineering Magazine. The periodical which described itself as 'An Illustrated Monthly Magazine devoted to Industrial Progress' was first published in 1891. It was not only available in the United States and Britain, but it also listed international engineering in its publication and index, demonstrating its reach. Early issues of the magazine included within its scope sections on architecture, but this ended in the 1899 volume. The index, which listed articles from other journals, classified its articles by subject headings such as 'Civil Engineering.' In 1899, it added 'Architectural Engineering' as a classification. Underneath this division, one could find subheadings with such specializations as 'construction' and 'heating and ventilation.' Articles could be found on materials such as iron and steel, or on building systems like hospital heating. It is in this index that a classification of architectural engineering took a broader view of what was included. It focused not solely on the structural system of tall buildings, but rather on the wider engineering needed to provide a complete building. However, within five volumes, this index classification disappeared.
 * Paulo J. da Sousa Cruz (2013). Structures and Architecture: Structures and Architecture: New concepts, applications and challenges. p. 1802


 * The Engineering index was published in this periodical from 1895 to 1918.
 * Title varies: Apr. 1891-Oct. 1916, The Engineering magazine; Nov. 1916-Dec. 1927, Industrial management.
 * Absorbed Factory in Jan. 1928; Manufacturing industries in Mar. 1929.
 * Absorbed by Factory management and maintenance.
 * Other Titles	The Engineering index (New York, 1895-1918), The Engineering magazine, Industrial management
 * "Factory and industrial management. Published 1891 by McGraw-Hill [etc. in New York [etc.] . Written in English. Edition Notes]" at openlibrary.org, 2015


 * The Engineering Magazine (1891-1916): The Engineering Magazine was the poor cousin of Cassier's Magazine, and sandwiched illustrated sections on quality paper between longer text-only sections on pulp. However, it ran to nearly 200 pages, plus nearly 80 pages of advertising, half again as many pages as a typical issue of Cassier’s Magazine.
 * "Cassier’s Magazine and The Engineering Magazine: Popular Journals of Engineering, Technology, and Industry, 1891-1916."
 * See also Cassier’s Magazine and The Engineering Magazine on Wikipedia.

Rename to "The Engineering Magazine"
it seems "the" is part of the oficial name. fgnievinski (talk) 01:17, 22 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the suggestion. I have thought about the same thing, and the "the" was initially in the lead sentence (see here) and even in the initial draft (see here). I guess five years ago eventually I decided to follow the naming convention of the Princeton University and Google. The secondary source (of which some quotes are listed here above) didn't give me an unambiguous name either. Now I don't object to renaming, but I think there should be a solid rational to do so. -- Mdd (talk) 11:55, 24 December 2020 (UTC)