Calendar: 1884-1885 Page 210

204 APPLIED SCIENCES 14 Engineering Workshops Matriculated Students The instruction given in the Workshop is divided two branches namely Wood Work and Metal Work The Workshop is well provided with the necessary Carpenters' Vices and Benches together with land-Lathes Geared and Screw-cutting Lathes Planing Drilling and other Machine tools The Foundry is furnished with Cupola Brass furnaces Drying-stoves and other suitable appointments The Smith's Shop contains forges and well-selected stock of tooN Steam-engine is placed in the vicinity of the Workshop by which the lathes machine-tools and foundry- fan are driven Model Room is attached to the Workshop in which are kept exercises examples and models to be worked to by the Students with the cost of the materials required for construction attached to each one II Students of the First Year on joining the department are made acquainted with the different Tools and their practical application to the purposes of Carpenters'and Pattern-makers work by going through the processes of preparing the wood setting out and forming from figured drawings prepared by themselves the various joints used in constructions of wood' Students in their Second Term are instructed in turning Soft and Hard Woods and other substances and also in the mode of preparing and fixing the work in the Lathe they are thus enabled to proceed with set of exercises specially designed with view to the attainment of skill in hand turning After having obtained proficiency in the use of the tools Students are instructed in making Models in which the preceding exercises are combined and which will also include the construction of Patterns and Core-boxes ready to be moulded from in the Foundry III Second Year Students are divided into Classes at the commencement of Michaelmas Term and are instructed in Metal work and Moulding In the Fitting-Shop they go