Copper Work: A Text Book for Teachers and Students in the Manual Arts

"Copper Work: A Text Book for Teachers and Students in the Manual Arts" by Augustus F. Rose, is an instructional book from the early 1900s meant to show teachers and students how to work with and use copper and other metals. It's designed to help improve metalworking education in schools. The book teaches the basics and also more difficult processes like soldering, decorating metal, and coating it with enamel. It provides step-by-step guides and pictures for making things like hinges, boxes, light fixtures, and picture frames. The author stresses that it is important to understand basic skills using practical experience, pushing students to be creative by coming up with their own designs while learning how to work with metal.