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Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. Technical drawing is essential for communicating ideas in industry and engineering .
As a necessary means for visually conveying ideas, technical drawing has been in one form or another a part of human history since antiquity. The use of these early drawings was to express architectural and engineering concepts for large cultural structures: the temples, monuments, and public infrastructure.
Peter Jeffrey Booker (19 August 1924 – 16 April 2011) was a British engineer and technological drawing historian, [1] [2] known for his 1963 A history of engineering drawing, a seminal work on the history of technical drawing. [3] [4] [5]
2.2 Institute for research in the history of engineering, natural science and industry, 1909/19 2.3 The History of Technical Drawing, 1960-63 3 Selected publications
A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842. [1] The process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies.
Technical illustrations can be components of technical drawings or diagrams. Technical illustrations in general aim "to generate expressive images that effectively convey certain information via the visual channel to the human observer". [1] Technical illustrations generally have to describe and explain the subjects to a nontechnical audience ...
Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (French pronunciation: [ɡaspaʁ mɔ̃ʒ kɔ̃t də pelyz]; 9 May 1746 [2] – 28 July 1818) [3] was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry, [4] [5] (the mathematical basis of) technical drawing, and the father of differential geometry. [6]
Traditional drafter at work A drafter in Portugal in the 1970s, using a drafting machine. A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman, drafting technician, or CAD technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or CAD designs for machinery, buildings, electronics ...