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Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ry work. As a requisite to graduation, ashort thesis on some original work along ceramic linesis required. To give an idea of the kind of positions held by thegraduates from this course after they have been out ofcollege for a few years, the following classification ofpositions now Tield by men who have been out three ormore years is given: Expert in charge of manufactureof insulator goods, 5; teachers of ceramics, 4; govern-ment service, 2; superintendent of brick plants, 15; su-perintendent or technical expert of terra cotta plants, 10;superintendent of potteries, 4; technical men in potteries,2; managers and owners of brick plants, 3; technical menin abrasive- wheel manufacture, 3; superintendent ofsewer pipe plants, 3; cement chemists, 2; enameled warechemists and superintendents, 2; general or analyticalchemist, 1. The college does not claim to produce finished andexperienced engineers, but it does give the kind of train-ing which is considered best not only by the men in the 8.1
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TKlitran Vase 2Vt 1A.^\. Vantlne if Cc.» 18s closest touch with the problems of technical education,hut also by those engaged in high grade ceramic engi-neering work. This training gives (Ik- student an ex-perience and a facility in the solution of practical prob-lems, which enable him to acquire quickly such an in-sight into the detailed methods of a business as willfit him to take a responsible position. It is, of course, impossible to train men to becomesuccessful engineers unless they possess natural talentsfor that class of work. In general, these are indicated bya liking for mathematics and the applied sciences ofchemistry and physics; also by an interest in the use of tools, in drawing, and in practical construction. Hvcryyear many persons who arc nol naturally fitted to be engineers enter the college because they believe that ceramic engineering pays. As in every other profession, amans success depends largely upon his native adaptabili-ty to his particular line of work, and

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