As they say, you can’t win ‘em all. While this week’s Biblio-Mat book may not be the most exciting, but at least it's somewhat
interesting (if you are into engineering drawings of sorts. There’s a niche
for everything, right?). Always remember, though, things could be worse.
Book: A Manual of
Engineering Drawing For Students and Draftsmen
Submitted by: Pat
Healy
From Pat:
This tome by Thomas E. French was surprisingly dry. I know
you can't judge a book by its cover, but you kinda can by its title. The full
title when you open up the book is "A Manual of Engineering Drawing for
Students and Draftsmen." Now maybe it's because I'm neither a student nor
a draftsman, but I get the feeling that Mr. French was definitely not trying to
rope anybody in who was outside of his target demographic.
I am torn about whether to leave this book in the drawer at
my hotel room (the Gideons haven't gotten here yet to leave a Bible) or to
bring it to my grandfather's grave (he was a draftsman of sorts). It's kinda
heavy and as far as I know, dead people don't read, so I'm thinking I'll go
with the former option. Or maybe I'll just read it and go to his gravesite and
tell him what I've learned. Yeah, that's what I'll do. Here goes ... Commence
reading!
Okay, "Preface to the Sixth Edition ... In the
successive editions of this book the aim has been to keep abreast of modern
engineering practice, adding new material in text and problems with each
revision. Quoting from the previous preface, a course in drawing consists
essentially of a series of problems given in connection with assigned study of
....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
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