You should post this in the mechanical engineering community. This is amazingly well done. We love this sort of stuff.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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It's interesting they called first angle 'British Projection'. I can see calling third angle 'American Projection' cause of ANSI, but it is still kinda odd.
He may have worked as an aircraft inspector but his passion was illustration.
Oh definitely. He loved nothing more than drawing and painting, although he was also a great woodworker. He made me a couple of relatively complex wooden toys when I was a kid.
He sounds like he was incredibly talented.
Wow! Thanks for posting this. I personally find this VERY interesting.
Great looking HAD drawings.
I wish I had an ounce of his talent.
Dude made his own pocket ref.
I grew up in a sheet metal fabrication company in the US. It's wild to see drawings of measurement tools I'm familiar with from 80 years ago. I had no idea these designs were this old. This is so cool, thanks for sharing, OP!
These are beautiful and way more than just mildly interesting.
Really cool item to have. Ty for sharing.
Really cool. Thanks for digitizing it all.
The sacred texts!
That is very impressive! I really like the detail view of the gauge indicator
This is so cool!
And it seems to ge written with a fountain pen. The times where people could write properly, beautifully, and made things to last.
I kind of regret being born in such a wasting consumption focused society...
Definitely a fountain pen. This was before ballpoints.