Location:
T171 .G42 G49x 1888-1899

Title:
In the wood-shop.

Date:
1898?

Content:
Students use tools to manipulate their wood projects.

History:
The Georgia School of Technology Announcement for 1897-98 notes: "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 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, which, for want of a better name, may be classed as cabinet work. It consists for the most part of equipment for the shops or school, such as cabinets, tables, drawing-cases, drawing-boards, physical apparatus, etc. 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. Two days of eight hours each, a week, are devoted to shop practice throughout the Apprentice year. About two-thirds of this time is spent in the wood-working shop."