Location:
T171 .G42 G49x 1888-1899

Title:
Wood Shop.

Date:
1892

Content:
Engraving of Wood shop on p. [16] of the Annual Catalogue of the Georgia School of Technology, Announcement for 1892-93.

History:
This engraving is believed to date before the destruction by fire of the Shop Building on April 21, 1892. The Wood Shop was located in The Shop Building, built in 1888, was one of the two original buildings when the Georgia School of Technology opened its doors in 1888. The Georgia School of Technology Announcement for 1892-93 notes: "The shops are organized and managed as a manufacturing establishment, taking contracts for a great variety of work, both in wood and iron, and from this variety of work, always in process of construction, such parts are given the students to make as will afford him the best instruction at that particular stage of his course...The first, or Apprentice year, is devoted entirely to wood work. This includes a course of elementary instruction in laying out work with knife and pencil, and the use of the ordinary hand tools, such as saws, planes, chisels, etc. This is followed by a course in elementary pattern work, introducing the use of the turning-lathe. After these elementary exercises the student works altogether upon practical work, especially pattern and cabinet work. Instruction and practice is given in the use and care of the wood-working machinery, large and small circular saws, band and scroll saws, cylinder and buzz planers, boring, mortising and tenoning machines and shaping machines. Two days of nine hours each are devoted to practice throughout this year."