Excerpt from Working Drawings and How to Make and Use Them: Designed for Industrial, Technical, Normal, and the Higher Grade Grammar School; Academies and Night Schools; And Artisans Desiring a Knowledge of the Principles of Pattern and Template Making The large number of pupils of the public schools who are removed, by necessity, from their studies at the end of the grammar school course, and who are sent into mills, factories and shops as apprentices, seldom become more than a part of the machine which they are required to attend and Operate, from lack of instruction in the one element which forms the 'basis of all constructive development, namely, the science of drawing. It is true that, of late years, the art of drawing has been taught in the schools; that is, the manner of handling and using the necessary instruments to enable the student to Copy from the flat or from models; but all Of this may be done mechanically, and is almost entirely destitute of intellectual culture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.