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

THERE is great diversity of opinion as to the most suitable case of drawing instruments for students, many colleges having their own particular cpecifications; but it would be difficult to find a more ...

THIS useful little manual provides an excellent course of instruction in instrumental drawing, very suitable for the junior classes of technical institutes. The be ginner is first shown the use of the ...

English mechanical engineer John Farey Jr invented several award-winning instruments that enabled technical drawings to be produced quickly and accurately.

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 ...