Frederick Remsen Hutton

In 1911 he was consulting engineer for the department of water, gas, and electricity of New York City, and he served as chairman of the technical committee of the Automobile Club of America for many terms.

Sinclair and Hull (1980) reflected, that "Frederick Hutton was eager to have the Society also determine a standard for rating steam-boiler capability, and observed 'it is part of our duty, no doubt, to establish gauges and standards.

'33 In the drive to rationalize American industry that began to gather force in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, standardization was to the engineer what administration was to the manager.

Within the technologically complex mechanical industries, especially, the creation of standard parts and uniform practices gave the engineer control over anomaly.

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