Lcion liiiiJUin' Cornell University Library LC 1081.C34TA Recommendations and regulations for the 3 1924 013 369 719 m I if iDiiji m Recommendations and Regulations FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF A-^aV' FSTRIAL, TECHNICAL /AND ART J SCHOOLS AND rpUSTRIAL, TECHNICAL AND ART DEPART- MENTS IN HIGH AND CONTINUATION SCHOOLS AND COLLEGIATE INSTITUTES THE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION ACT THE ADOLESCENT SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ACT THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION ACT ';- '>ii< ill ' i i <> .'I ■ r „!■:'! PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO TORONTO J|^ , Printed by A, T, WILGRESS, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 19 19 HaU (QolUge of Agriculture J'k.t (fjotnell Uninecaitg Jtt)ara, £3^. f. ffiibrarg Ontario Department of Education Recommendations and Regulations FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL, TECHNICAL AND ART SCHOOLS AND INDUSTRIAL, TECHNICAL AND ART DEPART- MENTS IN HIGH AND CONTINUATION SCHOOLS AND COLLEGIATE INSTITUTES THE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION ACT THE ADOLESCENT SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ACT THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION ACT PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO !^n. ■ ,,„T.pnf not approved "-iicicuj.. of Act. Amounts 4. — (1) For the purpose of promoting and assisting technical payable. education in Canada, the following sums, aggregating ten million dollars, shall be appropriated and paid out of the Consolidated Eevenue Fund of Canada during each fiscal year for the period of ten years beginning with the year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine .hundred and twenty, namely, — (a) During the fiscal year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, the sum of seven hundred thousand dollars ; (&) During the fiscal year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars ; (c) During the fiscal year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, the sum of nine hundred thousand dollars ; (d) During the fiscal year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the sum of one million dollars; 55 (e) During the fiscal year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred^and twenty-four, the sum of one million one hundred thousand dollars; and the like sum of one million one hundred thousand dollars during each of the succeeding fiscal years until the expiration of the fiscal year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. (2) Such sums, subject to the conditions of this Act, shall be grants of^^ allotted and shall he paid quarterly as grants to the Governments of the year, and , . J 11 ./ <= balance several provinces as follows: — payable quarterly in proportion (a) The sum of ten thousand dollars shall be paid in each year to papulation to the Government of each province ; (6) The remainder of the appropriation for each year shall be allotted and paid to the Governments of the respective provinces in proportion to the population of the said provinces respectively as determined by the last federal decennial census. 5. — (1) The grant payable to any province in any year shall not ^^^ant not to exceed the amount provided for each province by the next preceding amount section, nor shall it exceed an amount equivalent to that which the province. Provincial Government shall expend on technical education within such year. Expenditure (2) In determining the grant payable to any province annually, for land, no account shall be taken of any liability or expenditure incurred by the and*e™uU3- province for the acquiring of land, the erection or improvement of any [^lytution buildings, or the supplying of furnishings or equipment for any tech- established nical education institution established in the province prior to the first ilisl^not^ to' day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. tatoaccount 6. — The payment of the grants hereinbefore authorized shall be Terms upon made subject to the following terms and conditions : — payments (a) All payments shall be applied and used for technical educa- made!"^ tion in the manner agreed upon by the Minister and the Government of each province ; every such agreement shall be approved by the Governor in Council ; (&) No portion of any grant shall be used in whole or in part in meeting any liability or expenditure of any kind whatso- ever incurred in any province prior to the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, for lands, . buildings, furnishings or equipment secured or provided for technical education purposes; (c) Not more than twenty-five per centum of the annual grant payable to any province shall be applied for acquiring land, erecting, extending or improving buildings, or supplying furnishings and equipment ; 56 (d) There shall be forwarded to tiie Minister annually, by each province taking advantage of the provisions of this Act, a report, setting forth the work done in such province in promoting technical education, containing such details and information as may be prescribed by the Minister; (e) Every province receiving a grant shall furnish the Minister with such evidence as he may require, to show that the grants' paid hereunder are expended for technical education as provided by this Act. 7. — Such officers and employees as may be required for carrying out of staff. the provisions of this Act, shall be appointed under the provisions of The Civil Service Act, 1918. Balances 8- — Any portion of any appropriation authorized under this Act unexpended ^hich may remain unexpended at the expiration of any of the said fiscal to be carried , ,, , ■ -, ^ ■, ^ • ' -t ■.^ -i- x -j. forward years, shall be carried forward and remam available according to its more"tiian apportionment for the purposes of this Act during any one or more of 25% of the succeeding years ; provided that not more than twenty-five per cen- without turn of any annual appropriation shall be so carried forward and remain Mtalster? available without the approval of the Minister. 9. — The Minister shall make an annual report on or before the Annual thirty-first day of March on the work done, under the provisions of this Act, containing such information and particulars as the Governor in Council may prescribe, and shall include in such report the reports made by the several provinces on the work done in each province for the pro- motion of technical education and the expenditure connected therewith, Laid before ^^^ ^uch report shall be submitted to both Houses of Parliament by the Parliament. Minister within fifteen days after the presentation of the report, if Parliament is then sitting, and, if not, then within fifteen days after the opening of the next session of Parliament. 51 APPENDIX C UNIT COURSES FOR PART-TIME AND EVENING CLASSES Courses for Men Suggested fields of trades and industries in which instruction may be given in part-time and evening classes to men already employed in these occupations. I. Automobile repair and con- V. Electricity (general). struction. VI. Gas manufacture. II. Baking. VII. Heat treatment. III. Building construction (includ- VIII. Machine-shop subjects. ing carpentry, mill-room IX. Plumbing. work, bricklaying, building X. Printing (including presswork . foremen, cost estimating, and linotype operation). and concrete construction). XL Eadio operation. IV. Drawing and design (includ- XII. Sheet metal. ing building construction XIII. Slide rule. drafting, sheet-metal draft- XIV. Steam fitting. ing, interior decorating and XV. Telegraphy (Morse). machine drafting and de- XVI. Telephony. sign). XVII. Welding. Suggestions as to the way in which the processes in the trades and industries given above may be organized into courses given in a limited number of evenings. I. Automobile Repair and Construction The unit courses in automobile repair and construction include: Lessons. A — 1. Practical shopwork and lectures on frames and axles 10 A — 2. Practical shopwork and lectures on transmission, clutches, and steer- ing gears 10 A — 3. Practical shopwork and lectures on engines and lubrication 30 A — 4. Practical shopwork and lectures on carburetors 10 A — 5. Practical shopwork and lectures on ignition and magnetos 15 A — 6. Practical shopwork and lectures on batteries and starting and lighting. 25 A — 7. Laboratory testing and experimenting on ignition 10 A — 8. Laboratory testing and experimenting on starting and lighting. ... 10 A — 9. Laboratory testing and experimenting on batteries 10 A — 10. Laboratory testing and experimenting on engines 10 A — 11. Laboratory testing and experimenting on lubrication 5 A — 12. Laboratory testing and experimenting on chassis 5 A — 13. Sketching, plan reading, and mathematics of the automobile 20 A — 14. Garage organization and management 10 A — 15. Garage records and cost systems 10 A — 16. Salesmanship of automobiles 20 A — 17. Salesroom records and cost systems 10 A — 18. Advantages and disadvantages of different types of automobile devices and construction 10 58 Lessons. A — 19. Discussion of advantages and disadvantages of. motor, trucks and , their construction 10 A — 20. Discussion of advantages and disadvantages of j different types of. gas tractors and their constructibn ; 10 A — 21. Testing strength of material as used in automotive construction ..... 5 II. Baking The imit courses in baking include the following : B — 1. Elementary baking chemistry (including general chemistry, laboratory analysis of flour and baking materials) -. . . 50 B — 2. Advanced baking chemistry (including lectures on chemistry of baking, laboratory work, fermentations, microscopic tests, nutrition tests, starches, sugars, yeast, and yeast foods) 50 B — 3. Bakeshop mechanics, fuels, sanitation, cost estimating and oven control. 50 III. Building Construction The unit courses in building construction may include the following : BC — 1. Shopwork in house framing 10 BC — 2. Shopwork in roof construction 10 BC — 3. Shopwork in stair building 10 BC — 4, Shopwork in outside trimming and interior finishing 10 BC — 5. Mill-room practice 10 BC — 6. Builders' hardware 5 BC— 7. Saw filing 5 BC — 8. Mathematics for carpenters and bricklayers 20 BC — 9. Elementary sketching and drawing for carpenters and bricklayers. . 10 BC — 10. Elementary plan reading for carpenters and bricklayers 10 BC — 11. Taking of quantities and study of building materials 10 BC — 12. Practical work in laying bonds for bricklayers 20 BC — 13. Practical work in building arches for bricklayers , 30 BC — 14. Specifications and details in wood 30 BC — 15. Specifications and details in masonry : 20 BC — 16. Specifications and details in steel. 20 Be — 17. Advanced plan reading and estimating 10 BC — 18. The building ordinances of Minneapolis 10 BC — 19. Time keeping and cost distribution 10 BC — 20. Figuring cost of small structures and city ordinances 50 BC — 21. Mathematics for cost estimators of large structures 50 BC — 22. Plan reading and interpretation of specifications for estimators of large istruictulres 10 BC — 23. Study of materials of construction and city ordinances for estimators of large structures 10 BC — 24. Figuring costs of large structures under $100,000 30 BC — 25. Figuring costs of large structures over $100,000 50 The following unit courses may be offered in concrete construction only : BC — 26. Kinds of cement and their manufacture 5 . BC — 27. Concrete sands and stone 10 59 Lessons. BC— ^28. Proportions of concrete 'ingredients 5 BC— 29. Mixing of concrete and concrete mixef s ' (including placing of con- crete and operation of concrete-mixer engines) ' 10 BC — 30. Concrete-form construction 5 BC — 31. Properties and methods of testing cement and concrete 15 BC— 32. Concrete construction in cold weathet 5 BC — 33. Waterproofing "concrete 5 BC — 34. Cement finishes and surfacing 5 BC — 35. Cement block, brick, and tile manufacture 20 BC — 36. Concrete structures (including elementary reinforced concrete) . .-. . 15 BC — 37. Principles and disposition of reinforced concrete 5 BC — 38. Eeinf orcing metals and their physical properties M BC^39. Mechanics applied to reinforced concrete 5 BC — 4*0. Systems of reinforced concrete 5 BC — 41. Theory of beams and slabs 15 BC — i2. Theory of columns 5 BC — 43. Foundations and retaining walls 5 IV. Drawing and Design The unit courses in drafting and design as a special subject may include the following : D — 1. Elementary building-construction drafting 50 D — 2. Advanced building-construction drafting 50 D — 3. Elementary sheet-metal drafting '. 50 D — 4. Advanced sheet-metal drafting 50 D — 5. Elementary interior decorating 50 D — 6. Advanced interior decorating ^. . 50 D — 7. Elementary drafting for stonecutters 50 D — 8. Advanced drafting for stonecutters 50 D — 9. Elementary mechanical drafting and machine design 50 D — 10. Advanced mechanical drafting and machine design 50 D — 11. Structural steel design No. 1 50 D — 12. Structural steel design and estimating No. 2 50 V. Electricity The unit courses in electricity may include : E — 1. Elementary mathematics of electricity 15 E — 2. Fundamental mechanical and electrical laws . . . ; 30 E — 3. The theory and use of instruments and batteries 15 E — 4. National Electrical .Code rules and city ordinances on inside work with low voltage 15 ■E — 5. National Electrical Code rules and city ordinances on fittings and materials 15 E — 6. National Electrical Code rules and city ordinances on inside, work with high voltage 10 E — 7. Blue-print reading and estimating of materials for electricians 10 E — 8. Theory of direct-current and alternating-current generators with ■-■ National Electrical Code rules and city ordinances 15 60 Lessons. E — 9. Theory of direct-current and alternating-current motors with National Electrical Code rules and city ordinances 15 E — 10. National Electrical Code and city ordinances on the switchboard and its use 10 E^— 11. National Electrical Code and city ordinances on special subjects (such as fire-alarm systems and motion-picture booths) 10 E — 13. Mathematics, theory, and construction of direct-current generators and auxiliary apparatus 10 E — 13. Mathematics, theory, and construction of direct-current motors and aujciliary apparatus 10 E — 14. Use and repair of direct-current instruments in testing 10 E — 15. Operation and maintenance of direct-current switchboard 10 E — 16. Elementary course in the alternating current 10 E — 17. The theory, mathematics, and construction of the alternating-current generator 15 E — 18. The construction, testing, and repair of alternating-current instru- ments and motors 10 E — 19. The construction, testing, and repair of alternating-current trans- formers and auxiliary apparatus 10 E — 20. The construction, testing, and repair of alternating-current converting apparatus, and switchboards • 15 E — 21. Mathematics and mechanics of outside electrical construction work . . 15 E — 22. Eeading of maps, plans and specifications for outside electrical con- struction work 15 E — 23. Methods of handling men, materials, and tools in outside electrical construction work 10 E — 24. Organization and cost keeping in outside electrial construction work 10 E — 25. Treatment, handling and erection of pole line materials 10 E — 26. Methods of guying wires, poles and wires in outside construction. ... 10 E — 27. Safety devices and precautions for outside electrical construction. ... 5 E — 28. Methods of excavating for conduits and manholes in underground electrical construction work 10 E — 29. Laying and concreting conduits and manholes in underground elec- trical construction work 10 E — 30. Methods of back-filling and repairing in underground electrical con- struction work 5 E— 31. Special course in electrical meters 60 E — 32. Storage batteries for automobile men 15 VI. Gas Manufacture The unit courses in gas manufacture' may include the following : ' G — 1. Physics and chemistry of gas manufacture , 10 G — 2. Coal carbonization process and coal-gas manufacture 16 G — 3. Water-gas process and manufacture 10 6 — 4. Steam power plant equipment 10 6 — 5. Electric power plant equipment 5 G — 6. Gas distribution 10 G — 7. Gas meters 10 G — 8. Gas appliances 10 G — 9. Distribution and commercial office practice 10 61 VII. Heat Treatment The unit courses in heat treatment include the following : Lessons. HT — 1. The physical and chemical properties of metals (including distinc- tion bet^sreen physical and chemical properties; some simple chemi- cal reactions iand formulas; solution — solid solution and euctectic mixtures. Critical temperature of tool steels, including rapid review of the manufacture of cast iron and the common steel pro- cesses — Bessemer, basic open hearth, etc., and use of heat curves) 10 HT — 2. Simple chemistry in the manufacture of steels and cast iron (includ- ing effect of carbon, silicon, manganese, sulphur, and phosphorus on the properties of iron, and the use of shore schleroscope) . . . . , • 10 HT — 3. Casehardening, pack hardening, and box annealing. Cyanide process (sprinkling, boiling, and coloring). Bone and composition process (including arrangement of pieces, test wires, and proper methods of quenching). Pack hardening and box annealing (including use of pyrometer, selective hardening, and Jones gas process metal substitute) 10 HT — 4. Effect of temperatures on structure of steel and iron (each student will be given samples with directions for heating and cooking. He will make up a complete record of the heat treatment. The pieces will be tested and broken and results noted) 10 HT — 5. Tabulated results from HT-4 taken up in class and studied theo- retically (including hardening complicated pieces, oil tempering, lead hardening, melted-salt hardening, and various practical devices) 10 HT— 6. Eeview of HT-1, 2, 3, 4, 5. (The first five nights will be devoted to class and shop review of former work, questions, and difficulties straightened out). Alloy steels (effect of metals on steel mixture) — (chromium, nickel, molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, manga- nese) IQ. HT — 7. Shop and class work on alloy steel (including probable composition determined from properties; proper and improper heating and cooling; schleroscope tests; and .calibrating of pyrometer) 10 HT — 8. Use of microscope in study of metals (including preparing speci- mens; hand polishing; wheel polishing; and etching and coloring). Care and use of metallographic instruments (including methods of lighting, vertical; oblique; adjusting objectives and examina- tions of specimens) ,. 10 HT — 9. Simple metallography (including microphotographs of metals; microscopic formation — ^alpha ferrite; beta ferrite, austinite, mar- tensite, troostite, sorbite, pearlite, and cementite; iron carbon diagram; relation between microstructure and physical properties) 10 HT — 10. Practical review of entire course (including theory as applied to best hardening room practice) ; layouts and methods of representative 3 ; and automatic and recording pyrometers 10 m VHi. Machine-Shop Subjects The unit courses offered in machine shop may include the-foUojiri^g:: ; Lessons. M — 1. Shopwork on the. drill press - 10 M — .2. 'Shopwork on the lathe 25 M — 3. Shopwork on the planer. . . : , 10 M — 4. :Shopwork on the shaper , , 10 M — 5. Shopwork on the milling machine 25 M — 6. Shopwork with jigs and fixtures 10 M — 7. Shopwork on tool grinding 20 M — .8. Shopwork on grinder 10 M-»- 9. Eeview of arithmetic (including fractions, decimals, percentage, ratio, square root, weights and measures) ,..,... 10 M — 10. Mensuration (including simple formulae and tables, areas and sur- faces, volumes and weights) ; 10 M-^11. Speeds and speed ratios 10 M — 12. Mathematics of lathes 10 M — 13. Sketching and blue-print reading for machinists 10 M — 14. Transforming formulae and simple algebra 10 M — 15. Angles and triangles 10 M — 16. Milling-machine mathematics , 10 M — 17. Mathematics of gears 10 M — 18. Mathematics of milling cutters and blue-print reading 10 M — 19. Modem organization and methods of production 10 M — 20. Machine-shop materials 10 M — 21. Mechanics of the machine shop 10 M — 22. Machine types and attachments and special machines 20 M — 23. Mathematics and mechanics for machine draftsmen and designers (including trigonometry and graphs) , 50 IX. Plumbing The unit courses in plumbing include the following : Pl-^— 1. Eoughing-in jobs, including calking and laying out work 10 PI — 2. Joint wiping and soldering.- 20 PI — ^3. Installing fixtures .'. . . 20 PI — L Mathematics and catalogue study 20 PI — 5. Drainage and ventilation, plumbing laws and ordinances 20 PI — 6. Hot-water supply and circulation 10 PI — 7. Chemistry for plumbers 20 PI— 8. Drainage and ventilation 20 PI — 9. Plumbers' laws and ordinances .• 10 X. Printing The unit courses in printing will include the following : . Pr — 1. Printer's English 10 Pr — 2. Job composition 30 Pr — 3. Imposition 10 Pr — 4. Lettering for printers 10 Pr — 5. Free-hand drawing for printers 10 Pr — 6. Applied design for printers 10 63. Lessons. Pr— t. Materials used in printing (paper, iak, and plates) 10 Tr — 8. Elements of cost in printing. 10 Pr — 9. Bookkeeping and cost accounting 30 Pr — 10. Estimating for printers 20 Pr — 11. Linotype (mechanism and operation) 50 Pr — 12. Feeding the platen press 10 Pr — 13. Make-ready on the platen press 15 Pr — 14. Feeding the cylinder press 10 Pr — 15. Make-ready on cylinder press. 20 Pr^ — 16. Mixing colors for pressmen 10 Pr — 17. Color work for pressmen 10 Pr — 18. Inks and papers 10 Pr — 19. Stock cutting and cost estimating 15 XI. Radio Operation The unit courses in radio operation include the following : E — ' 1. Elementary mathematics of electricity 15 R — 2. Fundamental mechanical and electrical laws 10 E — 3. Elementary course in alternating current 10 R — 4. Theory and use of instruments 5 E — 5. Construction, operation, and management of storage batteries 5. R — 6. Transformers and induction coils 5 E — 7. Inductance and capacity 10 R — 8. Condensers and oscillating currents 5 R — 9. Antennas and grounds 5 R — 10. Radio power circuits 5 R — 11. Radio laws and operating practice 20 R — 12. Wave meters and measurements 5 XII. Sheet Metal The unit courses in sheet metal include the following : SM — 1. Elementary shopwork (including rules and. regulations for appren- tices ; machines and their names ; elementary soldering and laying out of pipe elbows, pails, and small articles) 17 SM — 2. Elementary sheet metal work (including listing of material from blue prints ; and the use of scale rule in connection with blue prints) 5 SM — 3. Advanced shopwork (including the making of funnels, .octagonal tee-joints, scoops, dripping pans, measures, cans, bosses, also wash- boiler covers and scale scoops ; and advanced soldering) 10 SM — 4. Furnace work (including the making of different furnace fitting; how to instell a furnace — ^getting the area of the house and select- ing a proper place to set furnace) 8 SM — 5, Outside jobbing and advanced shopwork (including repairing of outside sheet-metal work, laying of different roofs, and laying out of small utensils) . . 10 SM — 6. Architectural and cornice work (including measuring and laying out of a cornice, laying out of gable molds, panels, lintels, and 'laying out block letters and figures) ' 15' 64 Lessons. SM — 7. Marquee, skylight and window work (including skylight work, such as making of bars, cross bars, curbs, also how to lay out a skylight ; laying out and assembling a photographer's skylight; hipped sky- lights; ventilators for skylights; irregular octagon skylights; monitor skylight; and different parts of marquee and store awnings) 35 SM — 8. Exhaust and blow piping (including measuring and laying out of a blow-pipe system, separators, and making of hoods) 10 SM — 9. Advanced triangulation (including making and laying out of differ- ent fittings, such as boots, angles, etc.) 10 SM — 10. Automobile sheet-metal work (including brazing, soldering, repairing radiators, fenders, dashboard, etc.) 10 SM — 11. Test plan reading (including listing of material from blue print in large jobs, amounting to several thousand dollars) 10 SM — 12. Heating and ventilating in all its branches 10 XIII. Slide Rule The unit courses in slide rule include the following : SR — 1. Elementary slide-rule operation (including multiplication, division, power and roots of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentage, mensuration, costs and estimating.) 10 SE — 2. Advanced slide-rule operation (including formulae, such as those used in estimating and designing) 10 SR — 3. Trigonometry and difficult slide-rule operation (including logorithms, etc., such as used by designers, estimators, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers) 5 XIV. Steamfltting The unit courses in this subject include the following : Sf — 1. Mathematics and catalogue study 20 Sf — 2. Freehand sketching and laying out of water, vapor, and low-pressure heating systems 20 Sf — 3. Plan reading and estimating quantities 10 XV. Telegraphy One unit course of 50 nights should be offered in Morse telegraphy. This course should cover the Morse code operation and be open to those who desire to become telegraph operators. The Government has taken so many operators to use in the wireless stations that it has left the country in a crippled condition for telegraph operators at home. This course as offered should equip the student for a good position. Classes may be held on Monday and Thursday evenings each week for 50 evenings. A certificate is given at the close of the unit course to each student who satisfactorily completes the course. Entrance requirements: Any person 17 years of age who shows to the satis- faction of the instructor that he has the ability to become an operator is eligible to this course. 65 XVI. Telephony The list of unit courses may include the following. These unit courses are given the numbers by which they will be hereafter known in all the work of the school : Lessons. T — 1. General science of telephony 12 T — 2; Mathematics of telephony 12 T — 3. Substation course No. 1 13 T — 4. Substation course No. 2 12 T — 5. Private branch exchange No. 1 , 12 T — 6. Private branch exchange No. 2 12 T— 7. Cable course No. 1 12 T— 8. Cable course No 2 12 T — ^ 9. Exchange aerial construction course No. 1 12 T — 10. Exchange aerial construction course No. 2 12 T — 11. Exchange underground construction 12 T — 12. Toll line construction 12 T — 13. Central office equipment course No. 1 12 T — 14. Central office equipment course No. 2 12 T — 15. Central office equipment course No. 3 12 T — 16. Central office power plant 12 T — 17, Testing course 12 T— 18, 19, 20. Automatic telephony 36 XVII. Welding The unit courses in welding include the following : W — 1. Care of apparatus (including heat and adjustment of flames) 5 W- — 2. Properties of metals, fusian conductivity, oxidation and absorption of gas 5 W- — 3. Gases, oxygen and acetylene 10 W — 4. Preheating of metals 5 W — 6. Expansion and contraction of metals 5 " W — 6. Cast-iron welding 5 W— 7. Steel welding 5 W — 8. Care and repair of malleables and brazing 5 W — 9. Aluminum welding 5 Selections can be made from the units suggested according to the needs of the particular occupations of the evening school pupils. This selection will enable a school to prepare a programme which will be composed of all the units which can be taken to advantage in the sequence suggested and which will enable the students to secure, in a period of years, a thorough knowledge of the practical and theoretical phases of a particular occupation. A few examples of the way in which the units may be offered in a general course follow. The references are to the units described above. 66 COURSES IN AUTOMOBILE REPAIR AND CONSTRUCTION 1. GENERAL COUESBS FOE AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS. A. For machinists. The applicant must be employed as a machinist. He must be able to prove by test that he can do simple machine-shop work on the drill press, grinder, and lathe.. To secure a diploma, he must take the following unit courses : Lessons. A — 1. Practical shopwork and lectures on frames and axles 10 A — 2. Practical shopwork and lectures on transmission, clutches, and steering gears 10 A — 3. Practical shopwork and lectures on engines and lubrication < 30- A — 4. Practical shopwork and lectures on carburetors 10 A — 5. Practical shopwork and lectures on ignition and magnetos 15 ■ A — 6. Practical shopwork and lectures on batteries, and starting and lighting , . ; 35 W — lA. Oxy-acetylene welding ■ • 10 H — lA. Heat treatment and forge work 10 A — 13. Sketching, plan reading, and mathematics of the aijtomobile 20: SM— lA. Sheet-metal work 10 A — 7. Laboratory testing and experimenting on ignition 10 A — 9. Laboratory testing and experimenting on batteries 10 A — 10. Laboratory testing and experimenting on engines 10 A — 11. Laboratory testing and experimenting on lubrication 5 A — 12. Laboratory testing and experimenting on chassis 5 Courses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 must be taken in order given. Courses W-IA, H-IA, A-13 and SM-IA can be taken at any time. Courses 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 can not be taken until all other courses have been completed. It is possible for the student to take two courses per week, thereby doing two years' work in one. B. For Garage Men. Applicant must be employed as a mechanic of | some kind in the automobile business. It is possible that he can prove up hy test on some of these units, in. which I ease he would be given credit. To secure a diploma in this course the' student must prove by test that he does not need them or take the following unit- courses : Lessons. A — 1. Practical shopwork and lectures on frames and axles ' 10 A — 2. Practical shopwork and lectures on transmission, clutches, and steering gears 10 A — 3. Practical shopwork and lectures on engines and lubrication 30 A — 4. Practical shopwork and lectures on carburetors 10 A — 5. Practical shopwork and lectures on ignition and magnetos 15 A — 6. Practical shopwork and lectures on batteries, and starting and lighting 25 A — 7. Laboratory testing and experimenting on ignition 10 A — 8. Laboratory testing and experimenting on starting and lighting 10 A — 9. Laboratory testing and experimenting on batteries 10 A — 10. Laboratory testing and experimenting on engines 10 ■ ^-'^ Lessons. A — 11. Laboratory testing and experimenting on lubrication 5 A — 12. Laboratory testing and experimenting on chassis 5 M — 1 to 8, inclusive. Fifty lessons from these machine-shop courses, work as planned by the school for the individual student 50 A. — 13. Sketching, plan reading, -and mathematics of the automobile 30 W — lA. Oxy-acetylene welding j^ , 10 H — lA. Heat treatment and forge work 10 SM — lA. Sheet-metal work ; 5 A^ — 21. Testing strength of materials as used in automotive construction 5 Units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 must be taken in the order named unless the student can show by test that he does not need them. M — 1 to 8, inclusive, can be taken at any time. W— lA, H— lA, SM— lA, and A— 31 must be taken before 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13. It is possible for the student to enroll in more than one class. In this way he may take two years' work in one. C. For garage managers and mitomoMle salesmen. This course is open to three groups : A. Those completing the general course for automobile mechanics. B. The garage managers and foremen. C. Salesmen of automobiles, motor trucks, and gas tractors. Entrance requirements. — The garage manager and foreman must have a common-school education or its equivalent. He must either take the shop course as offered in the general course of automobile mechanics or show by a test that he is familiar with automobile construction. The salesman must be a common school graduate and show by test that he has a working knowledge of automobile construction. This general course must he taken in the order named. Lessons. A — 14. Garage organization and management 10 A— 15. Garage records and cost systems 10 A — 16. Salesmanship of automobiles 30 A — 17. Salesroom records and cost systems 10 A — 18. Advantages and disadvantages of different types of automobile devices and construction • 10 A — 19. Discussion of advantages and disadvantages of motor-truck con- struction 10 A — 30. Discussion of advantage of different types of gas tractors 10 A — 31. Testing strength of materials that are used in automotive construction 10 A — 12. Laboratory testing and experimenting on chassis ^ 10 The following is given as an example of the lessons which may be planned for a particular unit. In this case unit M — 3 is chosen. The lessons are taken -from Bulletin No. 8, published by the Federal board. M — 2. Shop Wohk on the Lathe PLAIN TURNING Lesson 1. — Oral instruction: Care, cleaning, and oiling of lathe. Proper centring for accurate work. Lesson 2.- — Stock, mild steel, % to 1 inch diameter. Finish over all first tO' accurate length, then to diameter shown on sketch, sample, or blue print. Note the result if the live center is not running true. Grind the centers. Lesson 3. — Stock, mild steel, J4 to % inch diameter. Turn to accurate length and diameter and face shoulder square, e. g., blank bolts. Lesson Jf. — Stock, mild steel, % to l^^ inch. Taper turning. Taper by taper attachment. Lesson 5. — Taper turning by setting over tailstock center. Fit taper plug to a reamed taper hole, e. g.. No. 3 drill socket. Give instruction and practice in resetting tailstock center in line for straight turning. Lesson 6. — Face at an acute angle by use of compound rest. See that the angle is accurate, e. g., gas engine valves. Test with protractor and bevel. THREADING AND MANDREL VTORK Lesson 7. — Oral instruction: Threads, kinds and standards; change gears; thread-cutting compounds. Thread cutting, V or United States standard threads. Grind tools to fit thread gauge. Calculation of change gears. Catch the thread by reversing the lathe. Catch the thread by running the carriage back by hand without stopping the lathe when cutting a multiple of the lead screw. Catch the thread by the index on carriage of some lathes. Practice cutting threads to 'fit the standard nuts J^ to 1 inch. Lesson 8. — Thread-cutting V., TJ. S. S. and A. L. A. M. and pipe threads. Cut pipe threads by backing out tool by hand to get taper. Cut threads feeding tool in compound rest. Lesson 9. — Practice in miscellaneous thread cutting. CHUOK AND FACE-PLATE WORK Lesson 10. — Oral instruction: Chucks, centring and use of lathe tester. Chuck castings or forgiugs and face surfaces flat. Lesson 11. — Boring: Chuck work, centring by cored hole or punched centre. Bore to size and uniform diameter. Drill in the solid by use of drill holder. Eeam holes to size. Bore cored holes to size for a short distance to guide the drill which is to follow. Make small bushings. Lesson 12. — Bore taper holes using taper attachment. Lesson 13. — ^Bore taper holes using compound rest (limited to shallow holes), e. g., hole in flange for pipe tap. Lesson H. — Face at an angle u^ing compound rest. Lesson 15. — Face-plate work: Give oral instruction on mounting and inside thread cutting. Fit threads by calipers and plug thread gauges. Lesson 16. — Turn gas engine valve stems and face valves. Practice must be given whenever possible in emergency repair work to develop resourcefulness. 69 ADVANCED WOBK Lesson 17. — Turn long pieces between centres necessitating use of steady or follow rests. Lesson 18. — Sliding, driving, running, press, and shrink fits. Turn pieces to naicrometer measurements or to gauge and fit accurately. Lesson 19. — Turning on offset centres. Locate the centres so as to insure that the offset centre line is parallel with and the proper distance from the main centre line. Rough out and finish a single throw crank shaft. Avoid springing by pressure between centres. Use of counterweight to preserve balance. Lesson 20. — Ee-bore gas-engine cylinders, in chuck or in cradle on the carriage, with boring bar. Use care to avoid springing the cylinders in clamping. Lesson 21. — Turn pistons to fit cylinders: Have piston walls uniform in thickness; ring grooves must be accurate and made to fit standard rings; piston pins at right angles to the axis of the cylinder. Use fixtures to hold pistons. Lesson 22. — Piston rings. Chuck the tub; bore, turn, and cut off rings, face or grind to proper width, cut, compress ill fixture, turn or grind to size, fit t© cylinder, allow for expansion at joint. Explain the use of a magnetic chuck. Concentric and eccentric rings. Lesson 23. — Pulleys. Bore and turn pulleys, keyseat in lathe with tool in tool post and used as a hand shaper. Oral instruction : Soft metal turning, lubricants, cutting speeds, belt lacing. Lessons 2Jf and 25. — Miscellaneous repair jobs for practice. Review of pre- vious lessons. Pinal tests for course. i I '; ! I 70 COURSES FOR WOMEN A Sequence of Unit Courses in the Use and Preparation of Pood UliriT I. Ceheals and Stakches Six lessons as follows: (1) Starch puddings, cream soups, and cream toast; (2) Breakfast cereals; (3) Eice, hominy, and barley; (4) Starch products, macaroni, and tapioca; (5) Beverages; (6) The byeakfast menu. Fnit II. Feuits and Vegetables Six lessons as follows: (1) Value of fruits and vegetables in the diet. Ways of using fresh fruit; (2) Preparation of dried fruits and use in diet; (3) "Ways of cooking potatoes; (4) Cooking green vegetables; (5) Vegetables as conservers of other foods; (6) The vegetable dinner. Unit III. Milk, Eggs, and Cheese Seven lessons as follows: (1) Milk and its value in the diet; (2) Cooking of eggs; (3) Custards and custard puddings; (4) Frozen-dishes from milk and cream; (5) Cheese and its uses in the diet; (6) Making and use of cottage cheese; (7) Luncheon menu. Unit IV. Peas, Beans, and Nuts Four lessons as follows : , (1) Peas and beans; (2) Pea and bean soups; (3) Nuts and their use; (4) The meatless meal. Unit V. Meat, Fish, Poultet, and Game Seven lessons as follows : (1) Selection of meat; (2) Method of cooking tender cuts; (3) Cooking tough cuts; use of offal portions; (4) Method of extending meat flavors; (5) Soups and broths; (6) Fish and other sea foods; (7) Poultry and game. Unit VI. Fats Five lessons as follows : (1) Selection of fats; methods of handling waste fat in the home; (2) Use of home-rendered fats in cooking; (3) Pastry; (4) Deep fat frying; (5) Salads and salad dressings. Unit VII. Battees and Doughs Six lessons as follows: (1) Quick breads; (2) Use of whole wheat and graham flours; (3) Use of flours from other cereals; (4) Sour milk and molasses mixtures: (5) Yeast breads; (6) Cakes and cookies. 71 Unit VIII. Sugar and Sweets Five lessons as follows : (1) The use of sugar in the diet; (2) Candies from cane sugar; (3) Candies from syrups; (4) Ices; (5) Gelatine desserts. , Unit IX. Home Peeseevation of Food Seven lessons as follows: (1) Canning of fruit; (3) Canning of vegetables; (3) Fruit juices; (4) Jelly making; (5) Preserves, Jams, butters, and marmalades; (6) Pickles; (7) Salting and fermentation. Unit X. Feeding the Family Eight lessons as follows : (1) How to estimate the food needs of the body; (2) Supplying the body with -fuel; (3) The protein requirement; (4) Mineral matter necessary for growth; (5) Providing body-regulating substances; (6) Proper division of the food require- ment into meals; (7) The cost of food for a day; (8) Planning the menu for a day. Unit XI. Special Adaptations oe the Diet Eight lessons as follows: (1) Infant feeding; (3) Feeding children under school age; (3) Feeding the school child; (4) Feeding the aged; (5) Feeding in constipation; (6) Feeding in overweight for weight reduction; (7) Feeding in underweight for weight increase; (8) Adapting the menu to the needs of the family group. Unit XII. The Housekeepek and the Food Peoblem Six lessons as follows: (1) Discussion of the food problems of the housewife; (3) Home production of food; (3) Fuel and time saving in food preparation; (4) Simplifying standards of living; (5) Economy in buying of foodstuffs; (6) Community kitchens. A Sequence of Unit Courses in the Making of Clottiing: for the Family Section I. Beginners' Section Unit I. Chemise Five lessons as follows : • (1) Introductory lecture, discussion, and demonstration; (3) Demonstration and classroom practice; (3) Hems, buttons, and buttonholes; (4) Neck and arm- hole finish; (5) Continuation of neck and armhole finishes. Unit II. Undeeskiet Five lessons as follows: ^ (1) Introductory lecture, discussion, and demonstration; (3) Demonstratien and classroom practice ; (3) Fitting and stitching seams; (4) Placket facing and belt; (5) Hem and flounce. n Unit III. Bungalow Apbon Four lessons as follows : (1) Introductory lecture, discussion, and demonstration; (3) Demonstration and classroom practice (speed emphasized); (3) Seams, facing neck and sleeves;, (4) Hem, Pocket, and Belt. Unit IV. Care and Eepaie of Clothing Two lessons as follows: (1) Lecture, demonstration, discussion, and classroom practice; (3) Kepair of outer garments and fine linen. Section II. Elementary Dressmaking Unit I. Budgets One lesson as follows: (1) Introductory lecture, discussion, and demonstration. Unit II. Washable Waists Five lessons as follows : (1) Introductory lecture, discussion and demonstration; (2) Demonstration and classroom practice; (3) Fitting, alterations, second fitting, seams; (4) Tail- ored waist; (5) Finish at bottom, cuffs. Unit III. Washable, Deesses Nine lessons as follows: (1) Introductory lecture, discussion and demonstration; (3) Demonstration and classroom practice; (3) Fitting, alterations, refitting; (4) Stitching and finishing seams ; (5) Plackets; (6) Finishing skirt at waistline; (7) Jjaying and finishing hem;. (8) Belt or girdle; (9) Placing cuff or other wrist finish, making and placing collar, closing. Unit IV. Caee, Eepaie, and Eenoyation of Washable Gaements Two lessons as follows. (1) Lecture, discussion, demonstration and classroom practice; (3) Dyeing. Section III. Advanced Dressmaking Unit I. Wool Deess Eleven lessons as follows: (1) Introductory lecture, discussion and demonstration; (2) demonstration and classroom practice; (3) Fitting, alterations, homework; (4) Second fitting, seams, methods of making seams, pressing seams, finishing plackets; (5) Stitching, finishing seams of waist; (6) Sleeves; (7) Finishing front of waist, lining, home- work; (8) Hanging skirt, hems, homework; (9) Collar, cuffs, girdle; (10) Finishing dress; (11) Class criticism of dresses. 73 Unit II. Deess Foem Eight lessons as follows : (1) Introductory lecture, discussion and demonstration; (2) Demonstration and classroom practice; (3) Padding form, homework; (4) Draping; (5) Sleeves; (6) Fitting waists and- sleeves, skirts; (7) Draping dress; (8) Class criticism. Unit III. Paety Deess Nine lessons as follows : (1) Introductory lecture, discussion and demonstration; (3) Demonstration and classroom practice; (3) Draping pattern for dress; (4) Waist and overdrap- ery; (5) Draping sleeves, fitting; (6) Preparing pattern for use, cutting; (7) Drap- ing for fitting, fitting, finishing seams, plackets, closings, etc.; (8) Edge finishes, replacing drapery; (9) Finish draping, girdle, finish dress. Unit IV. Caee, Eepaie^ Eenovation, and Eemodelling of Silk and Wool Garments (1) Lecture, discussion, demonstration, and classroom practice; (3) Eemod- elling, examination of garments, placing pattern on material, piecing, cutting, basting for fitting. Section IV. Infants' and Children's Clothing Unit I. Layette Four lessons as follows : (1) Introductory lecture, discussion, and demonstration; (2) Flannel under- garments, discussion and direction for making; (3) Dress or slip and nightdress; (4) Kimono wrappers and sacks, bootees, blankets, hood capes, knitted caps, coats, sleeping bags. Unit II. Children's Clothing Four lessons as follows : (1) Introductory lecture, discussion and demonstration; (2) Demonstration and classroom practice; (3) Finishing bloomers or drawers, finishing dress; (4) Finish of dress. Unit III. Boy's Suit (Wool ) Nine lessons as follows : (1) Introductory lecture, discussion and demonstration; (2) Demonstration and "classroom practice; (3) Making jacket; (4) Making jacket — continued; (5) Sleeves, lining; (6) Buttonholes and buttons, finish jacket; (7) Making trousers; (8) Making fly; (9) Finishing. 74 Section V. Millinery Unit I. The Making of a Hat Frame Twelve lessons as follows: (1) Introductory lecture, discussion and demonstration; (3) Demonstration and c-JESsroom practice; (3) Crowns; (4) Method of wiring'and preparing frame for covering; (5) Brim; (6) Altering commercial shapes; (7) Wire frames; (8) Making wire brim; (9) Wire crowns; (10) Covering frame; (11) Lower brim covering; (12) Covering crown. Unit II. Trimming Hats — The Care and Ebnovation of Hats Seven lessons as follows: (1) Discussion of trimmings, planning for trimming; (3) Hand-made trim- mings; (3) Hand-made trimmings-r— continued ; , (4) Trimming hats; (5) Linings; (6) Care of hats, renovation; (7) Eenovation of hat and trimming materials — continued, re-trim and re-line hat.