Calendar: 1871-1872 Page 151

150 APPLIED SCIENCES necessity of Turning for which purpose they are instructed in the use of the tools for turning soft wood hard wood ivory- and other substances and also in the mode of preparing and fixing the work in the Lathe The formation of Cycloidal Epicycloidal and Involute Teeth for Wheels Pinions Racks &c They are also instructed in the method of working in Sheet Metals and Soldering Second Year Students commence Metal Work the operations of which consist of the various processes of Chipping Filing Fitting Turning Boring Screw-cutting and Planing the con- struction of Foundry Patterns in Wood or Metal and Core- boxes These Students are also instructed in forging Wrought Iron and Steel and in Easter Term Moulder attends who gives practical instruction in the Art of Moulding With proper attention to the foregoing routine of procedure the Students become sufficiently proficient to be enabled to make for themselves Lathes and the apparatus connected with them Tools of various sorts Working Models of Steam- engines Boilers and other Machinery in the construction of which either Metal or Wood or the two combined are employed The Third Year's Students continue the Second Year's subjects and in addition they are encouraged to make ex- periments on the strength of Arches Beams and Girders designed and executed by themselves These Arches Beams and Girders are constructed from Working Drawings made by the Students themselves At the termination of the year Prize is given in each year for proficiency in the execution of some piece of Me- chanism the subject of which is given out during the Lent or Easter Term In order to obtain Prize in either the Second or the Third Year the Student is required to send in with his Model or Machine finished form dry pattern with Core-boxes &a