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xxiv County Directoiy of Scotlaml Advertis&)\
THE SCHOOL OF
ELECTRICAL
AND
ESTABLISHED IN 1868.
12 Princes Street, Hanover Square, London, W.
Manager— V^M. LANT CARPENTER, B.A,, B.Sc, F.C.S.
(Member of Council of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians.)
THIS Establishment is the Largest School of Electrical Engineering in the World, aud
embraces a greater range of subjects of instruction than any other. It is also the
only one in which a lengthened experience of the difficulties of combining an eifective course
of tuition in the theoretical portions of the subject, with thorough practical training, has led
io success in fitting men for every branch of Applied Electricity. In this respect it differs
from the theoretical teaching of a University or College course on the one hand, and from
the purely practical knowledge picked up by apprentices in the workshops of an electrical
engineer on the other, by being more thorough than either, while combining the advantages
of both. Since the opening of the School in 1868, upwards of 3000 pupils have passed
through it, many of whom now hold very high posts in Electrical industry.
NATURE OF THE TRAINING AND STUDIES.
The Practical portion of the course includes tuition and daily practice iu the various
Systems of Telegraphy, and especially in SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHY, with the
aid of very large artificial cables and a ' Siphon-recorder ' ; as well as in the different
TELEPHONIC Systems; also in the different Methods of ELECTRIC LIGHTING,
including the management of Prime Motors, Accumulators, Arc and Incandescence Lamps,
etc. An extensive and varied collection of Apiparatus, including several kinds of Dynamo
Machines and of Arc Lamps, is used for this.
The Theoretical portion is embodied in Lectures, which are followed up by tutorial
instruction both in classes and individually. The subjects treated comprise those portions
of Mathematics, Mechanics, Physics, and Chemistry which bear upon Electricity, and an
exhaustive study of the theoretical principles of Electricity, a thorough comprehension of
which is essential to the Scientific Electrician. At the close of the Course of Instruction
an examination for the Certifcate of the School is conducted by an Examiner of high
standing unconnected with the School. Pupils can enter at any time.
Electric Lighting-, Telephone, and Submarine Telegraph Companies,
Engineers, and others, supplied with Efficient Officers for every Department of
Applied Electricity.
TESTS MADE AND REPORTS FURNISHED.
The, School is open daily, except Saiarday, from 10 to 5. Copies of Teetimoniale from
some of the moat eminent Scientific and Practical Electricians of the day, as well as full Pros-
pectuses, Terms, etc., may be obtained by either personal or written application to th(^-
Seeretapy, School of Eleetrieal Engineering, 12 Princes Street, Hanover
Square, London, W.