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TWENTY-SEVEN exercises in detail are contained in this book, and hints for continuing thereafter a course in metal-work suitable for pupils in trade preparatory schools. The exercises are carefully graduated, at first introducing the use of hand tools, and leading up to some simple exercises in the use of machine tools, such as drilling machines, shaping machines, and turning lathes. The drawings are good, and show in every case what is required of the pupil. Some little omissions occur here and there; for example, on p. 53 appear drawings of a V block as an example of the use of a shaping machine. It is customary to have a groove at the bottom of the V in order to facilitate finishing its faces; this has been omitted. It is not, However, a grave objection to find such details left out; students possessed of average intelligence will discover them, and, judging from the preface, it is more than probable that the author had this view before him in the production of the book.
Exercises in Metal Work. For Trade Preparatory Schools.
By A. T. J. Kersey. Pp. x + 70. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1910.) Price 1s. 6d. net.
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Exercises in Metal Work For Trade Preparatory Schools . Nature 85, 436 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085436a0
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