The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20
MECHANICS COURSES
Notice Regarding Those to Be Conducted at Sheffield Sci.
 entific School,
HAVE MET WITH FAVOR
Large Number to Take Advantage of Lectures.-Mr. Chittenden's
 Statement.

Russell H. Chittenien director of the Sheffield scientific school, has just sent out notice to all the manufac- i turing establishments in the city re- gardins the courses for mechanics to be conducted at the school this win ter. These courses, established only few years ago, have met with great favor by large number of working men and it is expected that this year they will prove more popular than ever The notice received by the man ufacturers of the city is as follows
 The Sheffield scientific school with desire to be of help to tine mechan- ics of the city, will give during the present college year severa evening courses open to such persons as may wish to take advantage of the oppor- unity and who are qualified to un- dertake the work in question
 The courses to be given. provided there is a sufficient number of appli- cants, are CD elementary drawing. (2l practical mathematics, (S) me- chancal drawing, CI machine de- sign. t5l, steam and steam engines, tel practical electricity. t71 practical mechanics tSl chemistry as applied to the engine and boiler room. Of these courses the first two. elementary drawing and practical mathematics arc designed as preparatory for the more advanced courses which will fol- low.
 Course elementary drawing con sistng of ten exercises, will he given on Wednesday evenings from 7:Sn tl a;2o, commencing November The fee for this course Will be sl.
 Course tpraetical mathematical, consisting of twenty exercises, will be given on Tuesday and Friday even ings, from gao to 930. commencing November 3. Tine fee for this course will be S2.
 All applications from persons desir- onr of participating in one or hoth these courses should be made at once in writing. addressed to the Sheffield scientific school, giving the applicants name the character of his work. with the name of the factory where he Is employed and enclosing letter of recommendation from his employer foreman or other responsible person familiar with his work.
 For the advanced courses namely, courses 3-S inclusive. no applications will be received until after tho first of January lt may he stated however tha men wao take and complete sat isfactorilN the course in practical mathematics will De given preference when the more advanced courses in practical electricity or practical me- ehancs are made ID. Similarly. men who have completed satisfactorily the course in elementary drawing will bc given preference In the courses In me chanlcal drawing or machine design
 Course 1 elementary arawing) will deal with line work and lettering. sim pie projections and sections. develop mont of surfaces, and t/ reading of working drawings, This elementary course k intended especially to famil- arize beginners with the itsn of draw ing instruments, etc. and those per sons Who intend to take the courses in mechanical drawing or machine de- sign will make better progress 1T they have had this preliminary or it's rquiy- alent
 Course tpraetical mathematical will give the simpler clements of algebra, geometry and trgonometry that are of common nse. one partlA uar aim will be to teach the uso nf tables including Logarlthms The in- stiucton will be largely from the blackboard. but elementary text books will he used where needed The stu- dent will keep n0te-b book and work out examples for each exercise. There will he a short review of arithmetic. l. including fractions, decimals. and ra- tip and proportion. The use of let- tcrs in place of numbers will he ShoW,, and tho methods of denoting their combinations There will he instruc- ton in tho construction and nse of i formulas and in the transformation . ''"' '''"t'"H 'l 'dSA Rluatpns | nc l drawing of graphs or curves for equa- . tons will also he undertaken. In geometry those easy constructions that arc of use to dra raughtsmen will he given and also the determination of the areas, surfaces and volumes of daily practice. In 1'rieonoemtry inc method of measuring angles will be taught and tho meaning of tho terms sine, cosine and tangent. Then the men will he shown how to solve right trtangl"s and finally to use logarithms and trigonometric tables in their cal The plan will he to equip each man as far as possible with the use of this latter labor-saying de- vice.