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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 <lunav@abelhome.net> 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.





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