1900 Stanley
This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com of tbe inntversit^ of Wisconsin MATHEMATICAL DRAWING and MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, CONSTRUCTION, USES, QUALITIES,. SELECTION, PRESERVATION, and SUGGESTIONS for IMPROVEMENTS, WITH HINTS UPON DRAWING, COLOURING, CALCULATING SUN PRINTING, LETTERING, &c. WILLIAM FORD STANLEY. " La main de l'homme, la seule machine dp lVsprit." A. Dk Lamartine. SEVENTH EDITION. PUBLISHED BY E. & F. N. SPON, 125 STRAND. NEW YORK: SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, 12 Cohtlandt Street; AND BY THIS AUTHOR, at r, GREAT TURXSTILE, HOLBORN, LONDON", W.C. 1900 Price Five Shillings, PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION. In this edition about one hundred pages of new matter with many illustrations have been added, from the desire to embrace all recent improve ments in drawing instruments up-to-date. The whole matter has also been revised, to drop out descriptions of many instruments that have become obsolete, the defects of which were pointed out in early editions, when suggestions were made for improvements which were at the time original, but have now become general, and are adopted by the profession and the trade. W. F. S. Great Turnstile, June, 1 900. 4 4 I CONTEN T S. CHAPTER I. PAGE Introduction — Arrangement of Instruments in Cases — Defini tions — Metals Used — Qualities and Finish ... 1 CHAPTER II. Instruments for producing Fine Lines — Drawing Pens — Mapping Pens, etc. .11 CHAPTER III. Instruments for producing Broad Lines, Double Lines, Dotted Lines, Transfer, etc. — Bordering Pen — Road Pon and Pencil — Wheel Pens — Tracer — Pricker .
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