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Excerpt from Descriptive Geometry

Believing that no one study plays a larger part than Descriptive Geometry in the shaping of the student's mind into the analytic thinking machine, necessary to success in any engineering profession, the author has out lined and written the text With this as its chief aim.

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Excerpt from Descriptive Geometry

Believing that no one study plays a larger part than Descriptive Geometry in the shaping of the students mind into the analytic thinking machine, necessary to success in any engineering profession, the author has outlined and written the text with this as its chief aim.

To accomplish such an end, the following fixed arrangement has been used in the case of each problem: (1) Statement of given data and requirements; (2) Discussion; (3) Analysis or brief statement of general order of procedure in solution; (4) Construction of some general case of the problem.

The author, after graduating from college, learned the trade of boilermaking. Before the expiration of two years at his work, from observation and experience, the conclusion became reasonable to him that three-fourths of the errors in construction were due, either to the inability of the foreman to give his orders so clearly as to admit of no misinterpretation, or to the general inability of workmen to understand an order when given distinctly.

Students entering college are notoriously deficient in the ability to answer a question concisely and plainly, to express their ideas in any definite shape whatever, or to obey explicitly an order. To rectify these defects in the student, analyses have been given first place in the text, inasmuch as they constitute a definite outline of procedure necessary to the correct solution of each problem.

The text has been written in a conversational style, because, in numerous experiences with notes, the author has found this style to be the most effective in exciting the students interest and in giving instruction clearly.

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.