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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Craftsmen"”.
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Cheese Machines and Cellos: Technical Craftsmen and Craft Technicians
The study is based on a period of ethnographic research among approximately thirty tradesmen, apprentices, supervisors and related personnel at a medium-sized precision engineering company in Hamilton, New Zealand. The company specialises in high quality niche products and machinery for the dairy, …
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Medieval Islamic and Gothic architectural drawings : masons, craftsmen and architects
As medieval designers and craftsmen have left us with no textual evidence of their thinking processes, their drawings offer valuable sources through which their approach to design and construction can be investigated. Focusing on the early architectural drawings of the medieval period, this thesis …
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Builders, craftsmen and tradesmen in Montgomery County, Virginia, between 1850 and 1900
… was to identify, through historic documents, the craftsmen of a specific region, Montgomery County, that may have contributed to the construction of area buildings between 1850 and 1900. Data from Population Census reports and Birth Registers were used to create a matrix of craftsmen names, their …
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Job characteristics of construction craftsmen and their relationships to affective work outcomes
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Perceptions of craftsmen and apprentices regarding self-employment skill acquisition in the Kenyan informal sector
… to which self-employment skills were taught by craftsmen to apprentices involved in informal apprenticeship activities. The results were obtained from structured interviews with 52 craftsmen and 52 apprentices who were involved in apprenticeship activities in the informal sector in Nairobi. The …
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Nineteenth-century craftsmen and tradesmen in Hertfordshire: a spatial, economic and social study of self-sufficiency
… there are a small number of specialised craftsmen and tradesmen within the village, but few, if any, shops. This is followed by decline in household independence, but maintenance of village self-sufficiency with the presence of at least basic specialised crafts and trades and some shops. …
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Craftsmen and Wordsmiths: An Investigation into the Links Between Material Crafting, Poetic Composition and Their Practitioners in Old Norse Literature
… as Egill. In fact, connections between poets, craftsmen, their arts and their products resonate across the corpus of Old Norse literature—not only in skaldic metaphor, but also in historical, mythological and saga material. To judge by the frequency of their appearance in this literary corpus, …
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Training in the Historic Building Trades of New Orleans: An Inventory and Analysis
… risk of being lost due to a lack of new master craftsmen and the demise of the current generation of master craftsmen. The purpose of this study is twofold: to analyze the historic transmission of the trades in New Orleans through the lens of workforce development and to inventory and analyze …
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A productivity audit system for construction management in Indonesia
… of factors influencing productivity through craftsmen, foremen, and project managers; 4 identification and prioritization of factors for improving on-site productivity; and 5 development of a computerised system for diagnosing and providing advice for improving on-site productivity. A …
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An investigation into the training of labour in the informal construction sector in Kenya
The training of craftsmen in Kenya is the responsibility of their traditional employer the contractor. However, over the last 20 years, the contractors’ motivation to train has been eroded by increased casualisation. Concurrently, there was growth of the informal procurement system propagated by …
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The Life and Work of Thomas Perry
… knowledge regarding one of Ireland’s greatest craftsmen.
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Unreliable Drunkards or Honorable Citizens? Artisans in Search of Their Place in the Cusco Society (1825-1930)
… a common social and political identity among craftsmen of different social strata did not exist.
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Craftsmanship and automation in flexible metal spinning
… the skills and wisdom of experienced spinning craftsmen using a haptic interface. The validity of the rules is confirmed by a statistical analysis of the results of over 70 experimental trials with craftsmen. Control of both the roller force and the workpiece shape are found to be fundamental …
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Fashionable Chemistry: The History of Printing Cotton in France in the Second Half of the Eighteenth and First Decades of the Nineteenth Century
… industry. I investigate the co-operation between craftsmen and scientists by studying published scientific papers and dye books that focused on new innovations and improvement aimed at benefitting this industry. To verify that the new methods and scientific ideas were really implemented it is …
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Craft and Culture: the design, production and consumption of silver in Ireland in the seventeenth century.
… a diverse group of native and immigrant skilled craftsmen whose numbers in Dublin and in other urban centres grew exponentially over the course of the century. The increasing numbers of these craftsmen and the corresponding rise in their production of silver, as this thesis will present, mirrored …
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Theory and practice in architecture : a study of Frank Lloyd Wright
… how did he work with clients, assistants and craftsmen in order to build his ideas! Six houses were chosen as cases to represent three stages in Wright's career; the Winslow house, the Robie house, the Hollyhock house, La Miniatura, the Pope house and the second Jacobs house. Wright described …
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The mechanics and control of flexible asymmetric spinning
… determines the shape of the product, and skilled craftsmen to control the working tool. In Flexible Asymmetric Spinning (FAS) the mandrel is replaced with three numerically controlled internal rollers, thereby removing the setup time and cost associated with producing the dedicated mandrel. …
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The Providence furniture making trade, 1772-1834, as seen in the account books of Job Danforth and William, Samuel and Daniel Proud
… barter were a wray of life and business to early craftsmen. Balanced books and dayto- day solvency were not major issues in accepted business practices of the times. ☐ Sales of fifty-eight variations of cabinetwork and chairs accounted for between sixty and eighty-five percent, of Danforth's …
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The polygonal chapter house: architecture and society in Gothic Britain
… <p>Investigating the geometric means that craftsmen most probably used to plan these structures yields four principles. First, masons usually scaled the diameter of the chapter house to the relative size of the religious community. Next, architects experimented with various faceted plans of …
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