Drawing instruments have been essential to mathematics, architecture, surveying, navigation, engineering design, and other technical endeavors from antiquity through the 20th century, although ...

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IN his preface the author states that we nowadays expect to find somewhere in print an account of the little mysteries of any particular art, and that partly with the hope of enabling this expectation ...

A few other cases and sets of drawing instruments are found in the Armed Forces History, Physical Sciences, Political Life, and Work and Industry collections at the National Museum of American History ...

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