Drawing instruments have been essential to mathematics, architecture, surveying, navigation, engineering design, and other technical endeavors from antiquity through the 20th century, although ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This unpolished wood and cardboard ...

Instruments like these were used by skilled draughtsmen (and women) in many drawing offices to produce engineering drawings for structures, such as bridges and building frames, at a time when computer ...

In the early '60's, all freshmen at Worcester Polytechnic Institute had to take a semester of mechanical drawing and another semester of descriptive geometry. So we all bought drafting sets and a ...

THIS book gives in full detail the elementary courses of engineering drawing as taught to young midshipmen in the Navy of the Unite States of America. The instruction is arranged on the assumption ...

Description: A technical drawing course covering geometric constructions, pictorial and multiview drawing, sections, graphical vector solutions, dimensioning, detail and assembly drawings. Development ...