Course of instruction for the teaching of manual work in Germany / as arranged by the Common Union at Dresden ; translated with the permission of the Union by Moritz Uhland ; with introduction by John Beaton.

  • Deutscher Verein für Knaben-Handarbeit.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Course of instruction for the teaching of manual work in Germany / as arranged by the Common Union at Dresden ; translated with the permission of the Union by Moritz Uhland ; with introduction by John Beaton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    tray with volute edge, writing utensils, pen and pencil boxes, also some educational apparatus, as maps mounted on cloth, electric see-saw, pantometer, camera obscura, and so on. (d) For Woodwork.—Work in rebating and open dovetailing, working to model and scale, such as bookshelf, T square, boxes, footstools, sculpture and carving in triangle, square, polygon, semi- circle, and circle. Practice in making useful articles, such as the hamboard and the like; simple inlaid work, such as a thread reel, ruler, and the like; educational apparatus, such as rollers, wheel, pulley-blocks, cogged wheel, and the like; simple work in wire, such as pinching off, bending red-hot wire, the making of eyes, hooks, simple geometrical wire models for practice in the use of the blow-pipe. § II.—FIFTH STAGE (§5*). Matftrials.—(a) For Pastework.—As in the previous stage. (d) For Woodwork and Simple Metal Work.—As in the pre- vious stage, boards, posts, beech, and the other common timbers, veneer, polish, and zinc-plate. ' Tools.—(a) For Pastework.—As in the previous stage. | (/;) For Wood and Metal Work.—As in the previous stage, | and, in addition, toothing plane, angle gauge, punch and gouge, 1 metal-shears, turning-lathe, and appurtenances. ' Exercises.—The exercises in this, as in the preceding stage, i are for the purpose of training the pupil to work to his own plans, I to get up his own materials and tools, and to make and use polish. ! (a) For Pastework.—Useful articles of geometrical form, such i as album covers, glove boxes, as well as educational apparatus, | eight-cornered dies for demonstrating the extraction of the square | and cube roots, cardboard boxes, with mirrors to appear to see I round corners, forms of crystals, brief stitching, and so on. ^ (d) For Woodwork.—The repetition of the work in the previous j stage. Cord-winder, crossbow, square, octagonal, and round stuff; making finer boxes out of small boards by secret dovetailing, work- : ing with drawing knife, mortise chisel, and axe, to form such articles ; as footstool, garden seat, flower-pot stand; work in jointing and grooving, such as drawing-boards ; work in wild cherry-wood, such j as chairs and benches. Carved Work.—Cutting out ornaments, in raised and sunken j work for practice and for the decoration of useful articles. i Inlaid Work.—Such as chessboards, pin or needle cases, brush backs. j Educational Apparatus.—Such as stamping-mill, suction and I force pump, &c. 1 Turned work, making cylinders and cones. | Doubling and fastening in stone, with gypsum, of iron hooks, Szc. | Simple Metal Work.—Making the simplest articles,[such as , twine holder, electric machine, and so on. i John Heywood, Excelsior Printing and Bookbinding Works, Manchester.