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

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 ...

Engineering drawings are key tools that engineers use to communicate, but deciphering them isn't always straightforward. In this video we cover the fundamentals, including the different types of views ...

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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 ...

A few other cases and sets of drawing instruments are found in the Armed Forces History, Physical Sciences, Political Life, and Work and Industry collections at the National Museum of American History ...