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Re: Plotting tools
From: Greg R_
Date: 2008 May 29, 20:56 -0700
From: Greg R_
Date: 2008 May 29, 20:56 -0700
--- Lu Abelwrote: > So there's likely also a late 1950s edition somewhere in a box of > books. Whew, you've got a few years on me - glad to know I'm not the "oldest dog" on the list... ;-) > In fact, just like Bowditch's name stayed on American Practical > Navigator, it looks like French's name stays on drafting texts: The irony of the Amazon listing is that the $165.94 asking price would buy a pretty decent CAD program... ;-) -- GregR > French was sort of the Bowditch of the drafting world. > > Just pulled two copies from my bookshelf. One dated 1924 and once > owned by my long-dead father-in-law who spent 49 years working as a > draftsman for General Electric before retiring in 1962. The other > is > the 1937 edition and was owned by my father. I'm pretty sure I had > to > buy my own copy, either for the four years of drafting I took at a > technical high school or for my freshman drafting class on my way to > becoming an engineer. So there's likely also a late 1950s edition > somewhere in a box of books. > > In fact, just like Bowditch's name stayed on American Practical > Navigator, it looks like French's name stays on drafting texts: > > http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Drawing-Graphic-Technology-Thomas/dp/0070223475 > > Lu > > Greg R. wrote: > > --- Lu Abel wrote: > > > > Don't recognize that title offhand, but wasn't he the one who > invented > > the French Curve (hopefully that remark doesn't date me even > further... > > ;-))? > > > > Woof! > > > > -- > > GregR > > > > > > > > > > > >> Hey, I actually had a question that drove me to dig out my copy of > > >> French's "Engineering Drawing" You old dogs remember that > classic > >> text? Think I've actually got two copies from various vintages. > > >> > >> Lu Abel > >> > >> Greg R. wrote: > >> > >>> --- Anabasis75@aol.com wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> I resemble that remark! Sadly, when I took the class that > covered > >>>> > >>>> drafting, I was in the very last class that did manual drafting. > > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Glad to know that at least a few of us actually know what that is > - > >>> much like CelNav it's really becoming a dying art these days. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> I have never even used a CAD program. That was back in 1994. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> As one "old dog" to another, you really ought to try it sometime > >>> (personally, I'm doing a lot of stuff on a computer these days > that > >>> > >> was > >> > >>> done manually before - audio/video editing, CAD, etc. - and of > >>> > >> course > >> > >>> CelNav), and really wouldn't want to go back to the "bad old > days" > >>> before computers. If the "instant gratification" lure doesn't get > >>> > >> you > >> > >>> (and the ability to play "what if" in real time), the "Undo" > >>> > >> function > >> > >>> just might do it. :-) > >>> > >>> -- > >>> GregR > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> And for those on the list who might be too young to know what > that > >>>> > >>>> is, > >>>> that was one way that we did mechanical drawing back in the bad > >>>> > >> old > >> > >>>> days before CAD programs. :-) > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> GregR > >>>> > >>>> Greg, > >>>> > >>>> I resemble that remark! Sadly, when I took the class that > covered > >>>> > >>>> drafting, > >>>> I was in the very last class that did manual drafting. I have > >>>> > >> never > >> > >>>> even > >>>> used a CAD program. That was back in 1994. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch > >>>> > >> "Cooking > >> > >>>> with > >>>> Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > > > (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) > > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---