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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 that the student is quite without knowledge or experience in the handling of drawing instruments. Part i., occupying about a third of the volume, treats of line drawing in pencil and in ink, lettering, the use and care of instruments and scales, and describes in the minutest detail all the “tricks of the tool's true play” as witnessed in the practice of the draughtsman's art. In these pages the learner has virtually at his elbow, for constant reference, the skilled craftsman and the experienced teacher. His progress should be sure and rapid, even without much help from an instructor.
Engineering Descriptive Geometry and Drawing.
By Capt. Frank W. Bartlett Prof. Theodore W. Johnson. Part i. Pp. vii + 206. Part ii. Pp. v + 207–374. Part iii. Pp. v + 375–617 + xiv plates. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1919.) Price 27s. 6d.
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Engineering Descriptive Geometry and Drawing . Nature 105, 515 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105515a0
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