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EVERY nation which joined in the war suddenly found its productive man-power reduced while the productive capacity of the country had to be increased. Questions of economy, which used to be considered from a money point of view, now appeared in their true aspect as being quantity problems. It was not easy to discard the old methods, especially at a time when attention had to be riveted on the many new subjects which arose out of the war, and the University of Illinois is to be congratulated on having drawn up a set of most useful instructions as to how fuel economy, from the quantitative point of view, can be effected without even mentioning the saving in costs. The committee which drew up the instructions had the assistance of an advisory committee, which included railway engineers and representatives of locomotive engineers and firemen, and it would almost seem as if their influence had had the salutary effect of toning down scientific truths to a level where they could be understood by firemen.
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"The Economic Use of Coal in Railway Locomotives." University of Illinois Bulletin, vol. xvi., No. 2, 1918.
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Fuel Economy 1 . Nature 103, 213 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103213a0
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