*************Buy 2 get 1 FREE************** Buy 2 cd titles through the auction or fixed price format listings and during the check-out process send a message to request a free CD title of your choice. ***************************************** Item Description This Ebay listing is for the sale of a CD ROM publication of a Manual of Mechanical Drawing originally published in 1914. You can read the detailed content pages further down this page. Sample images from this CD 1914 Manual of Mechanical Drawing by John Dales 180 pages Presented in easy to view PDF file format. Allows Zoom-in up to 300% to enlarge sections of the pages for easy reading. Allows Printing of pages on your own printer. Allows Copy and paste page image to other applications like a word processor or image editors. User friendly PDF file format, the CD is Microsoft Windows as well as MAC compatible. Review: Often to understand a book we need to understand the times it was "born" into. That also often tells us a lot about the preferences and the prejudices in terms of what is included, and left out, of a publication. This was a time, 1914, where the industrial revolution was at its height of development and control over industries firmly in the hands of large industrialists and their investors. While some upstarts did make their way into the fray, mostly large industrialists were the lay of the land in every nation and region. Royalty was just giving way to more representational systems, but not gone, banking and industry saw themselves as the rightful owners of the world, and new technology and tools were making their way into every part of life around the world, changing lifestyles, and the future. Folks were working hard, and life seemed good, hard a bit, but secure. Into this there were some "flies in the ointment" and one of them was the lack of clarity and commonality in drawing and engineering standards. Soon folks everywhere were trying hard to make and publish instructional manuals that clarified good standards of practice and made what had often been tradecraft knowledge into engineering standards of practice that everyone could agree on and share. A sense of urgency that had been building, was reaching a critical point, and everyone who had knowledge wanted to get it codified, into print, and make their name as an expert, and indeed many were and thus contributed greatly to the generation of new and stable standards and qualify of work in engineering. This is such a tome. Here you find one of the best handbooks and manuals ever, delivered in a step by step down to earth instructional method that details, with many examples and drawings, how to properly draw and document drawings for the creation of most any kind of machinery. This kind of detailed clarity and this new high standard of work, drilled into a generation (three generations actually) of men and women - is what fueled the USA and our industrial and technological growth from the turn of the century though the 60's. Read this one carefully, as even if you are a CAD geek, you can learn from this tome how to layout your drawings and make them in a more clear and meaningful way. Great piece of work. Wish I had this when I took metal shop and drawing way back when. (remember when schools actually taught such things and let you MAKE real things in their shops?) So cool, so long ago, but folks left school knowing how to make things, not just having seen pictures of things others made. Might be a good idea to do that again ... ? Anyhow, by the time you finish this tome, you will be a skilled drafter, able to hold your own on any machinery project and generate drawings any machine shop or CAD geek will love to have to work from. Many great books of skills and technology were abandoned or forgotten, and they languished on the shelves of factories, in boxes in attics, and in garages and libraries. Now you can again delight and learn from them. This is a great drafting and drawing book, excellent instruction, great drawings to learn from, ideal for someone starting out or someone wanting to see what good standards used to be, and still are. Enjoy ... oh, and a pitch for the other publications we have ... we are trying to selectively resurrect the best and most useful tomes of the past, take a look at ebay store NOTICE TO EBAY ABOUT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ALL our products and publications are fully compliant with Ebay intellectual property policies. All are also compliant with and congruent with US trademark law, patent law, trade law, copyright law, and are fully cmpliant with US intellectual property law and code in all regards. We rigoursly validate our rights to legally market a product or own the rights to the product, license it legally, or develop the intellectual proprerty ourselves. This product contains content that has been derived from public domain. We have validated the original content is in fact in the public domain. Original content copyright period July 16th 1914 to July 16th 1994. Our modification and restoration process has resulted in our creating a new work (restored or annotated or improved work) that gives us a clear and novated copyright to this modified version. Our publications are derived directly from the original publication itself, then modified and digitally restored. They are not derived from any other individual or corporate work under copyright by any other Seller or publisher. Payment Method Paypal: We accept Paypal. Please make your payment within 7 days. You can also make a credit card payment through the Paypal system even if you didn't have a Paypal account. Please contact seller with any questions regarding payment methods. Shipping Information Please allow 7-12 days shipping time for shipping within the USA and 14 days for shipping internationally.For combined shipping discount please contact seller and wait for a combined shipping invoice from the seller before paying. Return Policy If for whatever reason you need to return the cd you purchased, please contact us to make arrangements for return of the cd within 7 days after you received the cd. We will refund your original purchase price, minus shipping charges, as soon as we received the returned item. Please check out the other Rocketbrain products in my ebay store. Remember to request for combined shipping rate when you purchase more than one CD title. Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution
By clicking "Accept All Cookies", you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts.
