... urging the adoption of a set of rules for conducting boiler tests that could be accepted as a standard code of practice by engineers. The paper emphasized the prevailing lack of uniformityin which ... the norm for subsequent ASME standards committees.2The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, “Introduction to ASME Codes andStandards” (New York: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ... first standard, ASMENOG-1, Rules for Construction of Overhead and Gantry Cranes, wasissued in 1983. The committee’s second standard, NUM-1, Rules for Construction of Cranes,Monorails, and Hoists,...