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

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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 ...

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My passion for stretching informed my early development as an artist, from emulating the styles of the comic artists I was reading to creating dungeon maps, monsters, scenes and characters for ...

THE Science Museum has recently received from Mr. Thomas H. Court a gift of a large number of early optical, mathematical and astronomical instruments, some of which are now displayed in a single ...