The centennial of the United States Military academy at West Point, New York1802-1902 . men, whose probable service is to be in the Ord-nance and Artillery Corps, are given subjects of ordnanceand artillery construction. Working shop-drawings of theprincipal guns and carriages of the United States OrdnanceBureau are on file in the department, together with a largeamount of data from foreign countries of the latest remaining members of the class, whose duties will be inthe line as quartermasters, commanders of working parties,and as commanding officers of posts and in control of Gove
The centennial of the United States Military academy at West Point, New York1802-1902 . men, whose probable service is to be in the Ord-nance and Artillery Corps, are given subjects of ordnanceand artillery construction. Working shop-drawings of theprincipal guns and carriages of the United States OrdnanceBureau are on file in the department, together with a largeamount of data from foreign countries of the latest remaining members of the class, whose duties will be inthe line as quartermasters, commanders of working parties,and as commanding officers of posts and in control of Govern-. The Academic History of the Military Academy. 309 ment property, are given working drawings of details of bnild-ing construction, and a figured drawing of a simple direct-acting high-pressure vertical steam engine to complete togiven scale. A large perfect model of a frame house to ascale of one-sixth is used for this work. Students are requiredto make isometric sections and projections through differentparts of the barrack project, showing entire construction ofwindows, doors, and interior floor and roof construction—figured. A facsimile model of steam engine to one-half scaleis used for the figured drawing of steam engine. Detail draw-ings of all the parts are also available, and the student isrequired to set up the engine to scale from these and themodel. This work completes the course of drawing. All theoretic and explanator}- instruction is given by lec-tures abundantl}- illustrated by stereopticon, blackboard, andmodels. Running commentar} and viva voce criticism an
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