A Great Technical Institute.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 5, 1 March 1906, Page 115

A Great Technical Institute.

Writing in the Magazine of Commerce, Mr. J. H. Reynolds, principal of the Manchester Municipal School of Technology, says . — The courses of instruction in the school are directed more especially to the requirments of the industries of south-east Lancashire, of which Manchester is the commercial centre. These embrace a wide range of subjects, and include mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and general technical physics, sanitary engineering, industrial and general technical chemistry, inclusive of the bleaching, dyeing, printing and finishing of textiles, paper manufacture, brewing and metallurgy, and the manufacture of textiles. In the course of an exhaustive description of the appliances used Mr. Reynolds remarks :—: — The equipment of the school is on a scale of considerable magnitude, and, indeed, it exceeds that of any English institution devoted to technological teaching. The workshops are well fitted up with modern tools, and the engineering shop has a special tool room, in which a complete installation of American fine-grinding machines, by the Browft and Sharpe Manufacturing Company, offers facilities for carrying on standardised work according to modern methods. A smithy, which contains eleven forges, by the Buffalo Forge Company, and a large hearth and a steam hammer, gives accommodation to twelve students at one time ; and a similar number of students can be dealt with in the foundry. The equipment of the electrical engineering department embraces the most modern English, American and continental plant and appliances.