Location:
T171 .G42 G49x 1888-1899

Title:
Two of the Forges

Date:
1896

Content:
Photograph of five students at two hammer and anvil forges following p. 22 of the Annual Catalogue of the Georgia School of Technology, Announcement for 1895-96.

History:
The Georgia School of Technology Announcement for 1895-96 notes: "The work of the second, third and fourth years (Junior, Middle and Senior) is divided between the four departments of the shop, viz: pattern making, foundry, smith shop and machine shop..In the Smith Shop, the student is first given purely mechanical training tasks in iron forging, which is continued only so far as will enable him to acquire sufficient skill to forge some useful article. After that his work is confined to such articles as possess intrinsic value. We received a silver medal this year at the Cotton States and International Exposition on our display of small tools made in the Smithery, such as hammers, masons and moulder's trowels and tools, turning chisels and gouges, cold chisels, swages, spawls, etc. The student also acquires skill in forging and dressing lathe and planer tools, welding, tempering, and annealing, steel, the brazing and soldering of various metals, case hardening, bluing, etc. It is to be distinctly understood that the student does not simply observe these operations as they are performed by a skilled artisan, but is required to acquire the handicraft himself, under expert instruction.