THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPÆDIA SUPPLEMENT VOLUME XXIV TRANSPORTATION T FEB 8 - 1927 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1926 sportation 5 Copyright, 1924 BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY All rights reserved THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, BINGHAMTON, N. Y. Library TH PREFACE TO THE SUPPLEMENT HE last complete revision of THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, when the entire work was reset, began in 1914, and the present SUPPLEMENT covers the ten years following. The war had so dominated the decade that it was hard to maintain the proportions of a really encyclopaedic review; yet the historical perspective of the war had certainly changed and it was essential to a general work of reference that detailed accounts of campaigns, battles, diplomatic struggles, revolutions and political and economic efforts at readjustment should no longer be allowed to prevent response to the diversity of public interests. Therefore the special aim has been to treat the war compactly and clearly and it is hoped that a reasonable balance has been maintained. The pages directly devoted to the war and its consequences probably do not exceed in space an octavo volume of average length, although of course the indirect effects of the war ramify incalculably throughout all parts of the text. The war articles have been prepared in the same manner as the text of the ENCYCLOPÆDIA itself, that is by the editorial staff and specialists and not by either alone. That method, indeed, has been followed throughout the present volumes, as it was in the ENCYCLOPÆDIA. Space is lacking for a classification of contents or for an outline of the plan, but the scope of the work may be inferred from the following list of a few of the larger groups of articles: The three largest departments are biography, prepared by an editorial staff and special contributors; history, by staff writers and members of the faculty of Columbia University; and the industrial, commercial and financial record of countries (their economic movement described statistically and in narrative), written or revised by experts in the Department of Commerce at Washington. Among the other departments may be mentioned: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, and allied subjects, a large group of articles contributed by a dozen specialists; Anthropology and Ethnology; Applied Science; Archæology; Architecture; Astronomy; Botany; Chemistry; Civil, Mechanical, Municipal, and Sanitary Engineering; Education; Electricity; Finance; Geology; Industries and Manufactures; Medicine; Labor Topics; Law; Literature; Mineralogy and Mineral Production; Music; Painting and Sculpture; Philology, Classical and Modern; Philosophy; Psychology; Railways; Social Economics; Zoology, etc. In general the plan of the work has been to supplement effectively the text of the ENCYCLOPÆDIA not by carrying forward its minor entries but by so grouping subjects that they could receive wellrounded treatment. October, 1924. FRANK MOORE COLBY. ARCHITECTURE, AMERICAN-American Radiator Building, etc ARCHITECTURE, AMERICAN-Kansas City War Memorial: Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, New York City ARCHITECTURE, AMERICAN-"The Towers," etc. 80 81 ELECTRIC POWER STATIONS-Turbine Generator ELECTRIC POWER STATIONS-Seven Radiator Type of Oil Transformer, etc. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS-Heavy Tonnage Electric Locomotive ELECTRIC RAILWAYS-Electric Freight Locomotive |