Book, Financial Engineering
date: label: date made
content: 1920
name: label: maker
content: Goldman, O. B.
notes: label: Description
content: Otto Berger Goldman, a consulting engineer and professor of heat engineering at the Oregon State Agricultural College, published thes "text for consulting, managing and designing engineers and for students" in 1920. It was inteneded to assist engineers in determining the "financial efficiency of undertakings." In addition to an introduction, the book includes chapters on cost segregation, fundamental financial calculations, basic costs, vestances, unit cost determination, determination of size of a system for best financial efficience, and determination of type and size of units. A second edition would appear in 1923.
label: Description
content: This copy of the book is from the personal library of mining engineer William F. Eberth (1905-1976), who spent fifteen years of his career with the Atomic Energy Commission working in South Africa.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Oregon
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Economics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of W. F. Eberth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.319872.05
label: accession number
content: 1975319872
label: catalog number
content: 319872.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.3 cm x 14.5 cm x 22 in; 29/32 in x 5 23/32 in x 55.88 cm