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Re: Plotting tools
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2008 May 29, 20:43 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2008 May 29, 20:43 -0700
French was sort of the Bowditch of the drafting world.
Just pulled two copies from my bookshelf. One dated 1924 and once owned by my long-dead father-in-law who spent 49 years working as a draftsman for General Electric before retiring in 1962. The other is the 1937 edition and was owned by my father. I'm pretty sure I had to buy my own copy, either for the four years of drafting I took at a technical high school or for my freshman drafting class on my way to becoming an engineer. So there's likely also a late 1950s edition somewhere in a box of books.
In fact, just like Bowditch's name stayed on American Practical Navigator, it looks like French's name stays on drafting texts:
http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Drawing-Graphic-Technology-Thomas/dp/0070223475
Lu
Greg R. wrote:
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Just pulled two copies from my bookshelf. One dated 1924 and once owned by my long-dead father-in-law who spent 49 years working as a draftsman for General Electric before retiring in 1962. The other is the 1937 edition and was owned by my father. I'm pretty sure I had to buy my own copy, either for the four years of drafting I took at a technical high school or for my freshman drafting class on my way to becoming an engineer. So there's likely also a late 1950s edition somewhere in a box of books.
In fact, just like Bowditch's name stayed on American Practical Navigator, it looks like French's name stays on drafting texts:
http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Drawing-Graphic-Technology-Thomas/dp/0070223475
Lu
Greg R. wrote:
--- Lu Abel <lunav@abelhome.net> wrote: Don't recognize that title offhand, but wasn't he the one who invented the French Curve (hopefully that remark doesn't date me even further... ;-))? Woof! -- GregRHey, I actually had a question that drove me to dig out my copy of French's "Engineering Drawing" You old dogs remember that classic text? Think I've actually got two copies from various vintages. Lu Abel Greg R. wrote:--- Anabasis75@aol.com wrote:I resemble that remark! Sadly, when I took the class that covereddrafting, I was in the very last class that did manual drafting.Glad to know that at least a few of us actually know what that is - much like CelNav it's really becoming a dying art these days.I have never even used a CAD program. That was back in 1994.As one "old dog" to another, you really ought to try it sometime (personally, I'm doing a lot of stuff on a computer these days thatwasdone manually before - audio/video editing, CAD, etc. - and ofcourseCelNav), and really wouldn't want to go back to the "bad old days" before computers. If the "instant gratification" lure doesn't getyou(and the ability to play "what if" in real time), the "Undo"functionjust might do it. :-) -- GregRAnd for those on the list who might be too young to know what thatis, that was one way that we did mechanical drawing back in the badolddays before CAD programs. :-) -- GregR Greg, I resemble that remark! Sadly, when I took the class that covereddrafting, I was in the very last class that did manual drafting. I havenevereven used a CAD program. That was back in 1994. **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch"Cookingwith Tyler Florence" on AOL Food.(http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)
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