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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This unpolished wood and cardboard ...

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 ...

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 ...

On his 18th birthday, Gordon Murray’s parents gifted him a set of Wild Heerbrugg Swiss drawing instruments. From those simple tools—a pen for lines, one for curves, a compass, some odds and ...