1 50 Rambles with a Fishing-Rod. 



Painter to the King of Bavaria, suggested that 

 very pleasant instrument, the trumpet-clock. There 

 were now five hundred persons engaged in the 

 clock trade in the Black Forest, and it had become 

 the recognised occupation of the people. The 

 work was all done by hand ; not for some years 

 was machinery used. But instead of the primi- 

 tive fashion of each family working for them- 

 selves, masters and workmen began to appear ; 

 and as time went on, the change became more 

 and more complete, till, in 1849, the Grand Duke 

 Leopold was asked to assist in founding a clock 

 and watch makers' school. The Government of 

 Baden at once acceded, and they gave 10,000 

 florins for the purpose of defraying some of the 

 building expenses and to carry on the work of the 

 institution the community of Furtwangen gave 

 wood and materials and in 1850 the Clock- 

 makers' School at Furtwangen was opened. 

 Thus, almost before the workmen of England 

 had begun to think of technical schools, the 

 peasants of a distant German province had 

 already set one on foot. It has given new impetus 

 to the work, and by the introduction of a special 

 literature and instruction, has in no small degree 

 aided the general education of the people of this 

 and^the neighbouring villages, as well as the ac- 

 tual technical branch which it was created to im- 

 prove. The school has two main objects. Firstly, 

 the education of the young by literary and theoret- 

 ical teaching in the elements on which the art of 

 clockmaking is composed that is, in the general 

 principles common to any scientific manufacture, 

 and in the more intricate details belonging spe- 



