Excerpt from General Foundry Practice Once a habit of study is acquired, the learner will work out his own path, and his training will have so increased his powers of observation that his daily experience will call for wider knowledge; when he has attained to this stage he may safely be left alone. It must not be forgotten that even seven years' apprenticeship, with attendance at evening classes and home study, will not make a complete foundryman. Knowledge is not easily gained, and training is never complete. It may be thought that the outline here given is too much for an apprentice after doing a full day's work in the foundry. Naturally, it involves considerable strain, but the authors are advocating no untested scheme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.