169. Wood, Harry E., & JAMES H. SMITH. Prevocational and industrial arts. Chicago: Atkinson, Mentzer & Co. [cop. 1919]. SSM Of broader scope than the usual book on manual training, inasmuch as tools and materials are described with greater detail. Aims to give grammargrade and high school students as broad a knowledge as possible of industries and occupations, supplying what in the olden days was obtained from the home and the shop. Includes woodworking, glass and window glazing, chair seating, mechanical drawing, jigs and tricks, school-home projects (gardening, canning, poultry, and hog raising), concrete, metal work, paper and printing, shoe repairing, and electric wiring. A large number of carefully executed drawings. Abrasives, 152. Aeronautics, 124-129. Automobiles, 151, 153. Castigliano's theorem, 138. Chemistry, 130-137. Civil engineering, 138-142. Colors and dyes, 130-131, 133. Cotton, 160. Cutouts, Printers', 165. Drawing, Architectural, 166. Electric power transmission, 147. Engines, Gas and oil, 126, 151, 154. Excavation, 140. Firewood, 168. Forestry, 164. Geodesy, 139. Gyroscope, 157. Hydrogen, 137. Ink, Printers', 130. Locomotives, 148. Machine design, 156. Measurements, Electrical, 143. Mechanical engineering, 148-156. Metals, Oxidation, 155. Mining, 163. Paints, 130. Petroleum, 135. Physical chemistry, 134. Rare earths, 136. Ruins, French, 159. Science, 157-158. Stresses, 138, 142. Tar, 131. Telegraphy, Wireless, 145. Telephony, 146. Upholstery, 162. Weights and measures, 167. 01216 N53 t MAY 28 1920 NEW TECHNICAL BOOKS A SELECTED LIST ON INDUSTRIAL ARTS AND ENGINEERING |