McKinley High School - President Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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LECTURE EXPERIMENT

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60 TH E ARTISAN Applied Class Work Andrew C. Beam Ervin J. Borth Albert F, Peck Science Science is a search for the truth. Wie do not study the subject as a mass of abstract material. Science is not the learning' of factsg it is the finding of facts and organizing them into useful informationg it is the discovery by the student through a process of investigation of facts pertaining to his trade. This, then, is the aim of science in a vocational school, the finding and organizing' of scientific material as it relates to the trade being' learned. Our industrial system owes its tremendous expansion to the work of the scientist. The pure scientist working in his laboratory has discovered and per- fected tlioize operations which now light our homes, run our machinery, and produce our food. From the dark, smoky, lilthy hut of the savage to the steam heated, electrically lighted home of today with every convenience and every sanitary appliance the scientist has played an all important part. The student in a vocational school made to realize the relationship of science to industry. A vocational school 'prepares boys for industry. Upon graduating our stu- dents enter the ranks of the skilled mechanics some of them to eventually become industrial leaders. A good inechanie must know the nature of the material with which he works. Consequently our science courses contain a study of wood structure, of metals, and of brick mortar, and concrete. Construction work whether a simple machine or a mammoth skyscraper is made possible by the investigation of science. Construction details even to the minutest detail have been carefully tested by the scientist before the architect and engineer proceed with the work. The scientist has made a study of stress and strain. He has gone into the heating, ventilation, and sanitation so that every convenience is made for health and happiness. The student entering the bnilding' trade, should know the scientific principles which have brought about our different types of constructions. Our science work then has as its purpose the teaching of the importance of science in the work of the studentg it touches on a study of products utilized in the tradesg it shows the dependence of construction work on scienceg and has a broadening cultural influence.

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62 THE ARTISAN Nelson E. Nachtrieb Carl A- Witte George Mathieson Joseph J. Hackett 1941 ' Drafting lt is impossible to develop a Hnished tradesman without a delinite knowledge of the language of the trade World of which we will eventually be a part. One of MeKinley's aims to impart to us as much working material as is possible during our course here, therefore trade drafting, another term for the language of the trade World is taught to us. Vtle endeavor to become intelligent readers of the blueprint which in reality is the means employed to pass on to the tradesman the orders for the part or parts of the Work he required to do. In order to do this we must be taught the fll11fl3.1Il611lI2l.lS of mechanical draft- ing' and sueh necessary steps the uses and names of the various instruments, different types of lines, how to read a. scale, relation of views, the principles ot projection, how the objects appear to the eye, and intersections. These funda- mentals are the same for all of tl1e trades, but problems pertinent to eaeli trade are used making' it necessary to have a separate eourse for each trade. This explains the necessity for referring to the drafting taught in a. vocational school as trade drawing. As far as possible we are working under conditions which approach those we will be under in industry. NVhen We begin work in the drawing rooms, we are given a blue print to work from. l7Vhile it is true that this first work is more or less copy Work, yet each print contains new steps for us, and we pro- ceed in such a gradual Way that at the end of our two yearsf sojourn we are not only able t.o read a. blueprint but also able to make our own drawings or plans from rough shop sketches, isometric drawings, and completed projects. An idea of the work aeeomplished by us here at McKinley may be had from the following ouilines of each trade. V