McKee Career and Technical High School - Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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— l«p i jw 1 ■ :.! !! i • ELECTRICAL SCIENCE LABORATORY SCHOOL DAYS are difficult, trying, and profitless days, say most students. All we hear from day to day is, get that book report in, solve that problem, do a better job, do this for homework, study for the exam, etc. What do we need all this for? Why not go out and get a job? Let us go into the future, say about five years from now. Where will you find the average McKee Electrical Grad? Will he be serving you? You are now (1945) getting along fine in your new job which you are justly proud of. As you review your average day, you find that electricity and electrical apparatus have been constantly at your service. Your McKee electri- cal alumnus will be in practically every electrical field. Some will be working in factories, building radios, motors, transformers, lighting fixtures, switches, refrigerators, telephones, and many intricate devices for special electrical de- vices such as automatic elevator control, automatic tunnel ventilation, and countless others. As you travel from day to day, your old classmates may be working for the Independent Subway System, The Staten Island Railway, the Edison Com- panies, the Telephone Company, and many other similar organizations serving you indirectly as electricians, power operators, and electrical testers. There are countless other positions that will likely be held by your own classmates, far greater in responsibility than these. Is this fantastic? Find your answers at an alumni reunion five years from now. Ask your old class- mates what they are doing and you will find that your stay at McKee was well spent. Greetings and best wishes to you all. MOTOR GENERATING 57

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Im i Hi i IL..H v? c « k J9K lilf!] 1 MACHINE SHOP PRACTICE THE MECHANIC of to-day is a giant compared with a man in the earlier stages of society. The modern machine shop represents a high development in the appli- cation of scientific truths to carry on the work of the world. While the man in earlier days toiled with his hands, arms and legs, using the strength of his muscles as the only motive power on which he could de- pend, the man of to-day has at his finger tips an almost unlimited supply of power. The feeble grip of his hands has become the vise with a grip resisting tons of effort to move the object upon which it has seized. The stone in his weak grasp, with which he drove the stakes to erect his first barricade for protection, has developed into the powerful pile-driver, the steam hammer, and the bull dozer . It is the purpose of the machine shop practice course to develop the student ' s skill in the application of these scientific truths which have existed since the beginning of time. AUTO MECHANICS DR. DIESEL, the inventor of the famous Diesel engine which is playing such an important part in railroad, marine, and automotive power, disappeared a few months before the beginning of the Great War while on his way on board a ship crossing the Eng- lish Channel, September 29, 1913. It was a clear evening and the water was calm. Dr. Diesel was at the height of his success, in good health, and he was carrying many important papers with him. His bed had not been slept in and no one had seen him dur- ing the night. The next day his family received a telegram saying he was safe in London, but a check-up showed that the telegram had been sent from Geneva. Several weeks later a body was found which was identified as that of Dr. Diesel. 56

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ELECTRIC WIRING AND INSTALLATION MAN first learned to use spoken language; then he discovered how to make graphic symbols of his oral sounds; thus developed written language. How we learned to use spoken language is unknown, but through the dim mists of antiquity may be observed a few traces to indicate how written lan uaoe was evolved. The most primitive form of written language was picture writing, and the earliest attempts to make lasting records were by scratching or painting crude pictures on natural smooth surfaces, such as stone, shells, bark from trees, or flat pieces of wood. All of this occurred in prehistoric times. Printing is the principal means devised by man for making exact copies of works of written language. Like all other arts it has grown from simple beginnings. It ranks fourth now in economic importance among the world ' s industries. Great Britain and the United States to-day do the bulk of the world ' s printing. They lay no claim to having had a part in the invention, at least in its early stages, and have contented themselves with such later develop- ments as the power press and linotype. PRINTING 1 •■» Tlte-r ■ ' « v £k A j fc 9? WJl - 5 » HH ■ a ' 58