Canadian wood products industries . NADIAN WOODWORKER June* 1916 I Low to Make and Read Working Drawings An Illustrated Article Dealing With the Method of TeachingDraughting in Technical Schools. By W. Alexander I read with a great deal of interest an editorialwhich appeared in a recent issue of the CanadianWoodworker, pointing out the advantages of techni-cal training for those men and hoys who hope somedaj to occupy responsible positions in the woodwork-inn business. Iechnical training certainly includes a knowledgeof draughting and a> the editor has pointed out, it of the qualifica
Canadian wood products industries . NADIAN WOODWORKER June* 1916 I Low to Make and Read Working Drawings An Illustrated Article Dealing With the Method of TeachingDraughting in Technical Schools. By W. Alexander I read with a great deal of interest an editorialwhich appeared in a recent issue of the CanadianWoodworker, pointing out the advantages of techni-cal training for those men and hoys who hope somedaj to occupy responsible positions in the woodwork-inn business. Iechnical training certainly includes a knowledgeof draughting and a> the editor has pointed out, it of the qualifications absolutely essential to thepresent-day mechanic. It matters not whether heworks in a planing mill, a furniture factory, a box fac-tory, or in fact any kind of plant that is manufactur-ing wood products, a knowledge of how to make andread working drawings will he a valuable asset. The question then, naturally arises where is hegoing to secure that knowledge? There are corres-pondence schools and courses of instruction provided. Fig. 1.—Box with Glass Sides Used for Teaching Draughting. in night schools for the purpose of imparting the ne-cessary knowledge, but there may be many reasonswhy a man cannot spare the time or the money to takesuch a course, although he would be amply repaid bydoing so. It has often occurred to me that one or two articlesdealing with the basic principles of making workingdrawings would be appreciated by men engaged in •the trade and while I fully realize that there are menbetter qualified to deal with the subject than myself,yet I have been tempted to offer a little informationand can only hope that my efforts will not be criti-cized too severely by those men who are alreadydraughtsmen. There are two kinds of drawings in general use,namely, perspective drawings and working reason I mention perspective drawings is becauseI have found that to the average man in the shop adrawing is a drawing no matter what kind it dra
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