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Middle and Lower Professional Schools. 
2. In Prussia the schools for the various technical branches 
are generally kept separate, although occasionally the schools 
existing in the same town are under one management. As inter- 
mediate institutions, in the sense here intended, must be considered 
the higher“ Schools of Mechanical Engineering. They are 
devoted to the training of foremen and of technical constructors in 
‘he machine industry and other allied ones, and also to affording 
future proprietors and managers of such industrial establishments an 
dpportunity of acquiring the necessary technical knowledge. For ad- 
mission into the lowest class of a higher School of Mechanical En- 
gineering a preparatory knowledge is demanded, which, besides the 
necessary previous practical training, is equivalent to that required 
for the one year’s military service. 
The time-table for the four half-yearly classes, with the number 
of weekly hours for the single subjects is the following. 
Cl. IV 
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Ct 117 Cl. II | CLT 
Business knowledge . . . | 
Mathematics . . = . . 
Physics . . . . . . . 
Chemistry. . . . . . | 
Mechanics . . . . . . 
Compon. parts of Machinery 
Knowl. of Boilers . . . . 
Lifting Apparatus 
Steam-engines 
Hydraulic Motors 
Gas Motors . 
» » Engine-tools . | 
zeneral Technology . 
detallurgy . . . . 
“lectro-technology. . ‘ 
3uilding Construction . . 
Valuation . -. . . . 
Descriptive Geometry . . 
Comp. parts of Mach.) Draw- 
Boilers . . . . | ing 
Jft. Apparatus . Lp and 
steam-engines i 
Ingine-tools . . .)ingof 
Laboratory Practice . . . | 
Round-hand Writing. . . 
Ambulance Treatment . . 
Total . . 
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The fees amount vearly to 150 M. (in Cologne to 200 M.D. 
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