Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-12
ELECTRICAL engineers.
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN
TO MASTER THIS IMPORTANT
SCIENTIFIC ATTAINMENT.
SaIaried Positions Are Assured for
Learners-An Opportunity to Ac-
quire Free Tuition Through the
Registers Coupon Contests Now
in Progress.

in Progress.
Young men have quickly recognized
the opportunities offered by electri-
city, but The continued demand for COM
retent electrical engineers shows that
either too few enter the profession,
or that many who do are lacking in
some essential. College men cannot
fill responsible positions until they
have acquired experience. They spend
four years in acquiring an education,
and two or three in getting expert
ence and forgetting impracticable
knowledge. Herein lies the great adj
vantage of the international system.
The Correspondence Schools Instruc-
ton Papers contain only practical mat
ter They take the young man with no
experience and little education and
give him the first opportunity to earn
living and then to learn a better
one-to put into actual daily practice
the principles taught in his Instruc-
ton Papers. While the college man is
spending four years acquiring an ed
ucation, their student is getting his ed
ucati0n and four years OF practical ex-
perience.
AS already stated, the college gradu-
ate usually begins his professional work
as a craftsman, depending for advance
ment on his training and the expert
elce he acquires. The Schools plan is
very similar, except that the student is
not required TO study four years before
securing salaried position in the pro-
fession. BY enrolling in the Electrical
Engineering Course and studying Me-
chanical Drawing first, he can quail
fly for a Salaried position as mechani-
cal craftsman in six months spare
time study assuming that he is Occu-
pied during the day and studies two
hours each evening. If he is not at
work, and can study five hours per
day, he can qualify for self-support-
ing position in from three to four
months
After obtaining the position, he can
take up the spare-time study of math-
ematics, mechanics, and machine de-
sign. This instruction, in connection
with his work in the drafting room,
will qualify him to design machine de-
tails
10 design or superintend the con-
stluction Of electrical apparatus, the
student needs a thorough knowledge of
tne principles OF electricity and mag
netism, their practical applications, and
the principles, operation, and design
Cf dynamos, mocors, and accessory ap-
raratus.
The instruction in electrical engi-
reering provided in the course is not
Hypothetical in character, but is the
recorded experience OF practical men
il the acknowledgement profession
trio
details of designs and the accurate
drawings given in the instruction Pa
per5 can readily be applied to special
cases. In his daily work. the student fs
i'll constant touch with practical cleo
trical engineers, makes detail drawings
of electrical apparatus, reads electrical
publications, and, best of all, can I'M
mediately apply his knowledge of cleo
trical priIcinles and designing TOR
ululas.
The largest demand in the electrical
engineering field to-day is for men with
| just such technical knowledge and
| practical experience as students Of the
| Electrical Engineering Course possess
after following out the plan OF the
| Correspondence Schools. The most
| valuable qualification of an electrical
| engineer is parutical knowledge of
| the design and construction of cleo
| trica apparatus. This qualification the
| 'student-draftsmen acquire through
| the instruction on the design of con-
tinuous and alternating current appar-
| atus, and are then fully qualified as
! electrical designers. The completion
of such subjects as Applied Electro
| city, Batteries, Electric Transmission,
| Electric Railways, and Electric Light
| ing, in addition to their experience as
electrical designers, will qualify them
TO plan and install complete power or
| lighting plants, manage electrical man
| Ufactories, successfully undertake gen
eral electrical contracting, or fill the
most desirable and lucrative positions
| III the electrical field.
Here is an opportunity for the am
| bilious young man who seeks an ed
| ucatiOn in the most promising scienti-
| fc field. Let such a man-young or old
| bend al his energies to become a winA
ner in the Registers free tuition com
| petition, and he will be enabled to Sc
| cure all available knowledge without
| cost, and to enter upon practical
work thoroughly equipped.
| Our text books and instruments are
On exhibition at Hugo L. Loos' No.
| 1920 Market street, and the contest
| closes at midnight February 18th.
Our competition for the special prize
of five dollars for the largest number
| OF votes by December 18th, closes at
room on that day, and no votes re-
ceived after noon will be counted for
| that incentive Be sure to have your
| coupons in before noon on Saturday
next, if you are working for that par
| ticular prize.