Chemnitz
Saxony Mittweida
Leipzig

The following data were compiled from tables appearing in the Report of
the Commissioner of Labor of the United States, for 1902. The hours per
week allowed each subject taught in the schools of machinery
construction, at Duisburg and Dortmund, Prussia, are given.

| DUISBURG || DORTMUND
+------------+------------++------------+------------
| FIRST YEAR | SECOND YEAR|| FIRST YEAR |SECOND YEAR
+-----+------+-----+------++-----+------+-----+------
|First|Second|First|Second||First|Second|First|Second
|Half |Half |Half |Half ||Half |Half |Half |Half
-----------------------------+-----+------+-----+------++-----+------+-----+------
German language and law | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 || 5 | 3 | 2 | --
Arithmetic | 4 | 1 | -- | -- || 5 | 2 | -- | --
Bookkeeping | -- | -- | -- | 2 || -- | -- | -- | 3
Descriptive Geometry | -- | 3 | -- | -- || -- | -- | -- | --
Mathematics | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 || 7 | 6 | 5 | 2
Experimental Physics | -- | -- | -- | -- || 4 | 2 | -- | --
Physics and Electricity | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 || -- | 4 | 3 | 3
Experimental Chemistry | 2 | -- | -- | -- || 2 | -- | -- | --
Penmanship | 2 | -- | -- | -- || 1 | -- | -- | --
Drawing | 12 | -- | -- | -- || 17 | -- | -- | --
Machine Drawing | -- | 6 | 8 | 8 || -- | 10 | 8 | 14
Projection | -- | -- | -- | -- || -- | 2 | -- | --
Mechanics | -- | 4 | 4 | 4 || -- | 5 | 5 | 2
Technology of mechanics, | | | | || | | |
smelting and refining | -- | -- | 6 | 4 || -- | 2 | 6 | 4
Theory of machines | -- | 6 | -- | -- || -- | 6 | -- | --
Steam boilers and hoist | | | | || | | |
machines | -- | -- | 6 | -- || -- | -- | 7 | --
Steam engines and hydraulics | | | | || | | |
and small mo