Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
THE AGE OF MECHANICS.
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE is NOW
MORE IMPORTANT THAN
EVER BEFORE.
The School of Mechanical Engineer
ing at Scranton Affords the Very
Best Opportunity to Acquire IA Conn
pIete Education Along This Line.

To the machine, or the product of the
machine, we are Indebted for our indus
trial development and present stage of
civilization.
Modern facilities for transportation and
communication have haen brought about
by improved machinery and mechanical
appliances. TThe thousand and one ne
cessities, conveniences and Iuxuries with
which we are in daily contact, are de-
pendent upon machinery for their pro-
duction and adaptability to our needs.
The field of mechanics is practically I'M
limited. Every important mechanical or
electrical invention calls into being new
machines and new appliances, and re-
quires the services of a constantly in
creasing number of competent men.
The technically educated mechanic has
become strong factor in the advance
ment of civilization, and the demand for
his abilities and experience is rapidly in
creasing the financial value of his work
The Mechanical Drawing Course, one
of those offered by the Register includes
instruction in Arithmtic. Mensuration,
Geometrical Drawing and Mechanical
Drawing. 1t will qualify the student to
calculate areas of surfaces and contents
of solids; to read drawings and TO lay
out work from them; to make develop
ments Of surveyed surfaces, from which
accurate patterns can be formed: and, in
short, to satisfactorily fill a position as
mechanical craftsman.
The Complete Mechanical Course in
cludes instruction in Arithmetic, Formu-
las, Geometrical Drawing, Mechanical
Drawing, Geometry and Trigonometry,
Elementary Mechanics. INTERMEDIATES,
Algebra, Logarithms, Pneumatics. Heat.
Steam and Steam Engines, Strength of
Materials, Applied Mechanics, Steam
Boilers. Mechine Design, Dynamos and
Motors. Il will qualify the student as
a craftsman, designer, and, with ex-
perience, as a mechanical engineer.
No knowledge that the apprentice ma
chinist can obtain will bring such imme-
date returns or prove of such lasting
value, as the ability to make neat and ac-
curate mechanical drawings.
If he would become an expert machin-
list, he must be able to work from design
ers drawings; but he cannot understand
them if he cannot draw
If he would become a craftsman, he
must either pick up a knowledge of draw
ing during three or four years service
as a blueprint boy" or tracer" or en-
ter the drafting room already equipped
with an education that will enable him
to command a draftman's salary
Through the Mechanical Drawing
Course he can acquire in nine months
spare-time study, the ability to make
drawings fully up to the standard OF the
best dra fling rooms M 1ore--i1liS knOTyI-
edge Of drawing is required yet the sue
cessful completion of the Course is guar
anteed to all that study faithfully.
Having secured the desired promotion,
he should then study the remaining por-
ton of the Complete Mechanical Course.
Through this instruction he acquires a
knowledge of mathematics. theoretical
and applied mechanics. dynamos and mo-
tors, strength of materials, and the prin-
c:ples and design of steam engines, steam