Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

148 APPLIED MOTION STUDY of all kinds, reed furniture making, rush seating and basket making. To the men who have the use of one and one-half hands, and whose minds are sufficiently developed, mechanical drawing is taught. For the men with one hand only, we se- lected glass mosaic work; a plan was devised for holding the glass so that with the one hand the worker could take his glass cutter, cut the piece of glass and fit it into the pattern he was making. We have taught show card writing, and also sil- versmithing. As you will notice, most of these trades are for men who have the use of two good hands. Reed work needs two good hands. An encourag- ing feature of this work is that men who had never done any of this kind of work before, men who had never done any skilled work with their hands at all, would, in the very shortest space of time, become expert. I remember one young man, a structural iron worker, had an injury in which he lost one leg. He had no other trade, but he came to the school and became an expert silver- smith; he did very beautiful work. He devel- oped into a very fine draftsman, although he had no home training. He was a man from the very