Book, A Manual of Drafting Instruments
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content: 1874
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content: Warren, S. Edward
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content: Samuel Edward Warren (1831-1909) attended three different preparatory schools, including the prestigious Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (where he kept a journal now held in the University of Delaware Library's Special Collections), before he matriculated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After he graduated in 1851, Warren became the assistant professor of descriptive geometry and drawing at Rensselaer. He was promoted to professor of descriptive geometry and stereotomy in 1854 and held that post until he took a similar position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1872. He retired in 1875 to operate a private school in Newton, Massachusetts, and to revise the fifteen textbooks he prepared during his lifetime. Nearly all of Warren's works covered the subjects of descriptive geometry and geometrical drawing; he also wrote reviews and journal articles on education. This book is an 1874 reprint of Warren's fourth textbook, <I>A Manual of Drafting Instruments and Operations</I>, which was first published in 1865. It is to be used as a textbook or for self-instruction. Warren divided the text into four parts: instructions regarding the use of instruments (mainly scales) and materials, "fundamental operations" for inking lines and shading areas, instructions for drawing and copying figures, and a discussion about making drawings aesthetically pleasing. On page 32, Warren provides his own mottos for completing geometrical drawings: "Finish a drawing without any error or defect," and "Never lose a drawing once begun." The book contains a few illustrations throughout and five plates in the back. The section on laying various shapes of geometric tiles (pages 79 to 87) is attractive. A few objects on the 3rd and 4th plates have been colored-perhaps by a reader, because the workmanship is rather sloppy. The copy is completely clean.
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content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Drawing Instruments
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content: Gift of Mrs. C. B. Schmeltzer in Memory of C. B. Schmeltzer
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1986.3110.12
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content: 1986.3110
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content: 1986.3110.12
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content: Book
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 1.1 cm x 13.2 cm x 19.8 cm; 7/16 in x 5 3/16 in x 7 25/32 in