MECHANICAL DRAWING PROBLEMS
FOR
HIGH SCHOOLS, NORMAL SCHOOLS AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS
By Epwarp Bere anp Emit F. Kronquist
Instructions in Mechanical Drawing
Washingeon High School
Milwaukee, Wis,
THE MANUAL ARTS PREss
Peoria, ILLINOISPREFACE
The aim of the authors is to present to the student and the teacher a collection of progressive
problems embodying the fundamental principles and examples of practical mechanical drawing,
arranged to cover two years of school work, The problems are grouped into first semester, second
semester, and third and fourth semester work, and arranged with the view in mind of teaching the
proper amount of principles and application during a given period of time. With this plan it is
felt that the student who leaves school at any time during the first two years or at the end of
two years, will have received the proportional amount of mechanical drawing which will serve his
needs best in the practical walks of life
Each problem is given in the form of a specification sheet and a lay-out sheet from which
the student is to make the completed drawing. The specification sheet gives a statement of the
problem and is frequently supplemented with text matter which bears upon and emphasizes the
thing to be taught in the problem, or gives some relative information, The lay-out shect suggests
the method of procedure, and also furnishes an object lesson in the form of carefully executed
work which is always before the pupil. With this method, class instruction is reduced to a. mi
mum, giving the teacher more time for individual instruction, and the pupil the opportunity of
working things ost by himself. The proper use of the specification, lay-out, and reference sheets
will do much, it is believed, towards creating self-reliance and personal effort and exertion on
the part of the student.
‘The required problems are fully supplemented, making the course flexible, and suitable for
many needs. The reference sheets are made use of thruout the book, and will be found a valu-
able feature, The extra plates may be used to extend the work over a period of more than
two years.