Industrial Arts Education ca. 1930

[mvwcnews]

Ran across this 1930 "Industrial Arts Education Yearbook"  while looking for something else.  The hand tools lists & shop tools are interesting, & some of the stuff is a bit frightening -- "lead burning" bench in a battery repair room in auto shop!
( https://books.google.com/books?id=atAOAQAAMAAJ ) .  The opening texts with "boys" going to industry from 8th & 9th grade shop reveal a different world for sure  (dad had an 8th grade education & then was part of the farm crew ).
Snap-On & Blue Point were getting their product into those shops.
P.S.  Tool listings start with wood shop tools pg. 92 ff.    Snap-On & Blue Point tools lists on pgs. 187 - 192.

[Papaw]

Same with my pop. I have his "Grade Diploma" when he passed the 8th grade. He went to work soon after.

[Northwoods]

My dad was an intellectual. He made it through the ninth grade. And then the barn burned down. Sooooooo....

[coolford]

Lets not knock shop, I took one year of metal shop and three years of wood shop in high school and received a manual arts diploma.  Then I became a USAF pilot through aviation cadets, got out after five years went to college, BS, MS and PhD in plant science and then 34 years with the University of Florida.  Have been retired for 21 years and heavy into tools.  Graduated with that shop diploma in 1952.  And, now very few high schools even offer shop!!

[oldgoaly]

Batteries were made in shops long ago, just a few that used multi cells that would need burning. Cars, trucks, radios, telephones, farm power systems. Also burning lead was done in plumbing, telephone/telegraph lines, roofing /flashings. Lead burning = lead welding,
wiping = soldering
Yes I still make lead soldiers and other things even lead hammers.(post already made on the hammers)

[turnnut]

 wow, lead soldiers, that brings back memories, making lead soldiers in our kitchen in the early 1940's wish I still had those molds today.

[Papaw]

I have an uncles molds for fishing weights and cast net weights.

[p_toad]

My next younger brother had lead soldier molds; you had to carbon coat them with a candle flame to keep the lead from sticking to the mold.   We always swiped my dad's solder to make them stay shiny longer.