Calendar: 1880-1881 Page 673

APPLIED SCIENCES 673 Describe the process of making earthenware drain pipes How are they glazed Describe the process of making fluted plate glass How is the thickness of flatted sheet glass described in speci- fications How is the water-mark produced in hand-made paper How are flat-hemp ropes and flat-wire ropes made Sketch transverse section through flat-wire rope Compute the tensile breaking weight in tons of hemp rope inches girth what working load would you put upon it Describe the machinery employed for moving corn from one part of flour mill to another What device is resorted to by printers for bringing out the shadows of wood engravings 10 Sketch and describe the piece of mechanism employed for preventing the over-winding of watch VI -Geometrical 23rafomg SECOND AND THIRD YEARS Construct plain scale of fall size Construct diagonal scale of miles to the inch to show furlongs Construct regular octagon on line 25" long and inscribe in it equal circles touching each other and the sides of the octagon Draw any irregular 5-sided figure and reduce it to any triangle of equal area Draw square of equal area Draw an equilateral triangle of equal area Bisect the equilateral triangle by line drawn from point in one side half an inch from either angle Show by construction V5 unit 1" υ υ