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only of chemistry, but of those parts of mechanics and physics 

 which are applied in industrial operations. Such subjects as 

 fuel and its uses in the solid, liquid and gaseous forms, steam, 

 gas and oil engines, the dynamo and electric transmission of 

 power, mechanical transmission of power, pumps, especially 

 those which deal with acids and other corrosive liquids, the 

 composition and uses of cements and concrete, the testing 

 mechanically of all kinds of materials such as iron, steel, brass, 

 and bronze, cement, brick, stone, fireclay, and fuel, all these and 

 others must receive careful attention from the chemical student 

 at some point in his career, if he aims at applying his chemistry 

 usefully to industrial purposes. But if he hopes to attain to any 

 position of importance in this direction he will also need some 

 knowledge of various kinds of manufacturing plant, and the 

 best way of laying it out to advantage in the establishment of 

 new works or extension of those already in existence. And if he 

 becomes a manager he cannot neglect the various Factory and 

 Workshops and Public Health Acts, protection against fire and 

 accidents, to say nothing of the regulation of workpeople. 



Information on these and many other topics must be supplied 

 in the courses of instruction carried on in any well-directed 

 School of Technology, and all these are therefore to be found in 

 due proportion at Manchester. 



III. THE BERLIN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, CHARLOTTENBURG 



This great institution stands in Charlottenburg facing the 

 main road from Berlin. Until quite recent times the range of 

 education associated with the term " high school " represented 

 in Germany a standard far higher than anything existing in this 

 country. But as already indicated in previous pages we now 

 possess in the Imperial College at South Kensington, the Royal 

 College of Science for Ireland, the Royal Technical College at 

 Glasgow, and the Municipal School of Technology at Man- 

 chester, and perhaps one or two other Colleges, institu- 

 tions which are comparable with Charlottenburg in variety 

 of subjects taught, in the standard aimed at in the teaching, 

 and in the reputation of the professors who are responsible for 

 maintaining that standard. None of these are now places of 

 mere elementary instruction administered to part-time students 

 in the evenings. Those who frequent their classrooms are 

 required to give evidence of the necessary preliminary education, 



