The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-02
TECHNOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA.
Technical Schools Numerous and We'll
Conducted

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Technical Schools Numerous and We'll
Conducted.
In none of the Australian colonies has
the work of technical education been
carried on more successfully or more
| efficiently than in New South Wales,
although it cannot boast richly en-
dowed working mems college like that in
Melbourne. The Sydney technical coll
lege, which forms the center Of the tech
meal education system in New South
| Wales, is large and commodious
/ building, situated in the heart Of in
! dustrial Sydney, with numerous we'll
| furnished class-rooms, museum and all
the accessories of properly equipped
institution, resembling In many of its
features the Ecole Poytechnique in
Paris. The curriculum includes art,
decorative art, architecture, botany,
physiology, TYPOGRAPHY, mathematics,
geology mechanical, electrical and ami
ia sy engineering, chemistry, pharmacy
agriculture, veterinary science, sheep
and wool training, bookkeeping, dress
cutting, cookery, etc. The most numer-
Gus attended classes are those devoted
to art, mechanical and sanitary engi-
neering, architecture, chemistry, geolo-
gy and sheep and wool training The
art classes are, in many respects, the
complement of the science departments,
the subjects taught being plane and SOL
i'd geometry, model and object drawing,
modelling, casting, etc. The classes in
mechanical engineering are highly In
teresting, After courses of mechanical
drawing and appicd mechanics, students
can go on and learn practically black
emitting, pattern-making, boler-nak-
ing, fitting and turning, or iron found
ing. The workshops for these CLASSES
are provided with every variety Of APP
pllance, and apprentices and worknien
following any of the trades named nave
the advantage of seeing not only how
certain result may be accomplished, but
also of careful explanation by skilled
in structors Of the reas ms why the work
should be done in particular way.
In anticipation of -he possible destiny
Of New South Wales as an iron produc-
ing country, a class in iron founding has
been es,a sh d When the furnace
is in full blast, and some coupe of
score of energetic youths are carrying
about molten metal and laying it in the
clay beds fashioned to various des gins,
the sight attracts crowds of visitors.
This department is under the supervl-
sion of practical man, who not only
directs the furnace operations, explains
the degree of temperature required and
the nature of the fuxes essential to the
work, but also superintends the after
operations in the production Of the
various designs into which the fiery
mass is solicited. In the chemistry sec
ton, practical chemistry in all its
phases, metallurgy and assayihg are
thoroughly taught, the laboratory being
provided with cyanide and chlorina lion
plants, and youths who intend to follow
scientific mining have the opportunity
of acquainting themselves, under eff
Gent instruction, with the latest devel-
opments in metallurgical research.
The lecturer In charge of the Depart
ments Of chemistry and geology is Rev.
j. Milne Curran, an enthusiast in his
work, and the compiler Of very useful
m John Plummers Austria
liam Correspondence