Lowe High School - Towers Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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3. Improved farm machinery. 4 The demand for more durable products. 5. Increasing number of inven¬ tions and discoveries. There are certain facts about the pattern trade for which the pattern¬ maker must be thankful. The skilled work done by his master hand can¬ not be replaced by modern ma¬ chinery, as in the case of the cabinet¬ making trade and others. Again there is less danger of the pattern¬ maker put out of work by the em¬ ployment of unskilled labour than is the case in any other trade. In his work he finds continual interest. Routine and monotonous operations are lacking, as he daily and hourly works out some new problem. Every pattern he undertakes presents a new task, different from the last in¬ volving some new problem as to construction and methods of mould¬ ing. The accompanying photograph represents the patterns for an 8-inch Bench Tool Room Emery Grinder. The drawing and blue prints were produced by the Drafting depart¬ ment. A complete set of working patterns was made from the blue prints in our school pattern shop. The moulds, cores and castings were the product of our school foundry. -o- WOODWORKING The classroom for woodwork in the school is one of the best in Canada. It is equipped with a full supply of hand tools and twenty- four woodworking machines. The course in woodworking in¬ volves the correct handling of tools so that good technique may be ac¬ quired by the students. The tool work is accomplished by a study of the materials used in this industry. 4$

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The second year’s work is a con¬ tinuation of the first year work, and the pupil, after completing this year, should know how to wire a house, acording to the “Rules and Regula¬ tions of the Hydro Commission. He should be’able to wind small direct current armatures satisfac¬ torily. to connect and operate direct current machinery accurately as well as to install telephones, bells, an¬ nunciators, and simple burglar alarm systems. In the third year the work is adapted to assist the pupil in his chosen vocation, whether it be die¬ making, auto mechanics, building construction or electricity. The stu¬ dent choosing building construction receives instruction in factory and house wiring, and those choosing die-making, auto mechanics or elec¬ tricity receive practical and theo¬ retical instruction in installing.oper- ating and maintaining direct current and alternating current machines, transformer connections, house wiring and other branches of elec¬ tricity. The pupils in the fourth year have advanced work. The technical school student choosing electricity as his vocation should therefore have received ade¬ quate knowledge and skill to work intelligently at practically anv branch in the electrical field, while the student who chooses some other vocation should have attained suf¬ ficient knowledge of electricity to assist him in the vocation he has chosen. F. E. JOHNSTON. -o- FOUNDRY During the past few years pat¬ tern-making has taken a position of vast importance among the trades and industries of the country. The reason for this condition may be briefly outlined as follows: 1. The decreasing forest supply which has resulted in the production of many metal products which were formerly made of wood. 2. The vast increase of auto¬ mobiles and motor trucks. 47

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 49 Wood-turning exercises followed by making a table lamp, introduce the boy to the machines. In the second year building con¬ struction (frame dwellings) is studied so as to show good and bad practices sometimes employed in the building trades. The steel square, its many uses in the framing of houses and other tools employed in carpentry and cabinet work are studied. During this year the pupil is allowed to use the machine to the utmost of his ability. Sawing is done on the circular and band saws. Planing, jointing, shaping, mortis¬ ing, tenoning, trimming and sand¬ papering operations are done on the machine specially constructed for the purpose. The boys in this group make by production methods a beautiful End Table. 1 he third year course consists of more accurate work. Actual con¬ structive work is undertaken. Every department of the school has equip¬ ment that has been made by this class. They study further pos¬ sibilities of the steel square, roof framing’, stair building, estimating, and do all their work from blue prints. The boy that takes the full course becomes a very competent worker.