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Glossary I

In the White

Cabinet work before any finish has been applied.

Source: Anonymous, Home Craftsman 4  January-February 1935, page 124.

Induction Motor

See Appendix 21: History of the Fractional Horsepower Motor in America

Online Source: John English Motors in the Shop-- "The Differences Between Universal and Induction Motors," WOODezine 2 Issue 3 March 2004 http://www.woodezine.com/03_2004/54025_motors.html

Industrial Arts

Also Manual Training and Technological Education. An important term, its 1904 origin date is credited to the Columbia University professor, Charles R. Richards, Head of the Manual Training Department of Teachers College, part of Columbia University in New York. A colleague of John Dewey, Richards coined the term in an editorial in a 1904 issue of Manual Training Magazine. Arthur B Mays, The Problem of Industrial Education (NY: The Century Co, 1927) is one of several sources I will use to help sort these terms out.

Historically, these terms are important because, when they were in fashion as everyday social vocabulary, each referred to specific curricular programs in place in America's high schools and tech schools. Click here for an extended discussion of Industrial Arts. See also Appendix 9: Defining Industrial Arts 

Infeed Table

Where the Workpiece is inserted or placed on a power tool's point of operation (i.e., "table"), specifically, that portion of a machine's work surface located forward of the cutting mechanism, e.g., a Jointer's Cutterhead, a Tablesaw's Blade,

Inlay

To decorate with ornamental designs by setting in small pieces of material in the body of a piece of work which is made of different material from the inlaid pieces; also, the designs so made.

Instruction Sheets

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