1914 Engineering Mechanical Drawing Drafting plan CD

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This Ebay listing is for the sale of a CD ROM publication of a Manual of Mechanical Drawing originally published in 1914.

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1914 Manual of Mechanical Drawing by John Dales 180 pages

Presented in easy to view PDF file format.

Allows Zoom-in up to 300% to enlarge sections of the pages for easy reading.

Allows Printing of pages on your own printer.

Allows Copy and paste page image to other applications like a word processor or image editors.

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User friendly PDF file format, the CD is Microsoft Windows as well as MAC compatible.

Review:

Often to understand a book we need to understand the times it was "born" into.

That also often tells us a lot about the preferences and the prejudices in terms of what is
included, and left out, of a publication.

This was a time, 1914, where the industrial revolution was at its height of development
and control over industries firmly in the hands of large industrialists and their investors.

While some upstarts did make their way into the fray, mostly large industrialists were the
lay of the land in every nation and region.

Royalty was just giving way to more representational systems, but not gone, banking and
industry saw themselves as the rightful owners of the world, and new technology and tools
were making their way into every part of life around the world, changing lifestyles, and
the future.

Folks were working hard, and life seemed good, hard a bit, but secure.

Into this there were some "flies in the ointment" and one of them was the lack of clarity
and commonality in drawing and engineering standards.

Soon folks everywhere were trying hard to make and publish instructional manuals that
clarified good standards of practice and made what had often been tradecraft knowledge
into engineering standards of practice that everyone could agree on and share.

A sense of urgency that had been building, was reaching a critical point, and everyone
who had knowledge wanted to get it codified, into print, and make their name as an
expert, and indeed many were and thus contributed greatly to the generation of new and
stable standards and qualify of work in engineering.

This is such a tome.

Here you find one of the best handbooks and manuals ever, delivered in a step by step
down to earth instructional method that details, with many examples and drawings, how
to properly draw and document drawings for the creation of most any kind of machinery.

This kind of detailed clarity and this new high standard of work, drilled into a generation
(three generations actually) of men and women - is what fueled the USA and our industrial
and technological growth from the turn of the century though the 60's.

Read this one carefully, as even if you are a CAD geek, you can learn from this tome how
to layout your drawings and make them in a more clear and meaningful way.

Great piece of work.

Wish I had this when I took metal shop and drawing way back when. (remember when schools
actually taught such things and let you MAKE real things in their shops?) So cool, so
long ago, but folks left school knowing how to make things, not just having seen pictures
of things others made. Might be a good idea to do that again ... ?

Anyhow, by the time you finish this tome, you will be a skilled drafter, able to hold your
own on any machinery project and generate drawings any machine shop or CAD geek will love
to have to work from.

 

Many great books of skills and technology were abandoned or forgotten, and they languished on
the shelves of factories, in boxes in attics, and in garages and libraries.

Now you can again delight and learn from them. This is a great drafting and drawing book,
excellent instruction, great drawings to learn from, ideal for someone starting out or
someone wanting to see what good standards used to be, and still are.

Enjoy ... oh, and a pitch for the other publications we have ... we are trying to selectively
resurrect the best and most useful tomes of the past, take a look at ebay store

 

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