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Title: Mind and hand: manual training the chief factor in education
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ham, Charles Henry, 1831-1902. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Manual training. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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animated by Steam.—The Boys at the Lathes—Their Manly Bearing.—The Lesson. When the twenty-four boys of the Carpenters Labora-tory have become expert in the use of the tools employedin carpentry they will be introduced to the Wood-turningLaboratory. The change is radical—from the square tothe circle, from the prose to the poetry of mechanicalmanipulation. Carpentry is distinguished for its cor-ners and angles, turnery for its spherical, cylindrical, andeccentric forms. In these forms Nature abounds anddelights, and it is in these forms that the rhythm ofmechanics exists. It is by the Turners that the arts aresupplied with a thousand and one things of use andbeauty. The machines, great and small, from the loco-motive to the stocking-knitter—without which the workof the modern world could not be done—these wonder-ful contrivances, seemingly more cunning than the handof man, owe their very existence to the turning-lathe. The skilled instructor in this department of the school
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THE WOOD-TUKNING LABORATORY. 33 loves to dwell upon tlie history of tiirning. Its origin isenveloped in the obscurity of early Egyptian traditions.It is the subject of one of the oldest myths, which runsthus: Num, the directing spirit of the universe, andoldest of created beings, first exercised the potters art,moulding the human race on his wheel. Having madethe heavens and the earth, and the air, and the sun andmoon, he modelled man out of the dark ISilotic clay, andinto his nostrils breathed the breath of life. The Potters Wheel of the ancients contained the germof the turning-lathe found in every modern machine-shop,whether for the manipulation of wood or iron. Holtz-apffels has an ingenious speculation as to the origin ofthe invention of the lathe. In his elaborate work on Turning and Mechanical Manipulation he says, It would appear probable that the origin of the lathemay be found in the revolution given to tools for pierc-ing objects for ornament or use. At first it may be sup-

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