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

If you enjoy sketching, drawing or are in the fields of graphic design, architecture, or art, you already understand the importance of precision and harmony in your creations. The Exlicon L Golden ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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