The Art of the Engineer
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1981. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on spine, beige and color illustrated dust jacket with black lettering, 240 pp., bw illustrations throughout. VG-/G+ (book shows very minimal shelf wear, all pages clear and intact - dust jacket shows some warping and several small tears in front, back and at spine, still protective). Item #182494
ISBN: 9780879511289
"In a distinguished presentation, with hundreds of superb examples of the engineer's art, the history and visual excitement of a developing technology is captured, a field which, until now, has been much neglected. The techniques of engineering drawing made it possible for the engineer to create and organize a man-made world in unprecedented and Promethean ways, but they were also the means for controlling work and introducing factory discipline on a scale previously unknown. They were at the center of nineteenth-century industrial enterprise and they continue to be an indispensable conceptual tool for today's technology ... In an impressive text with extended captions, the authors place each drawing in its contect and describe the development of the skills of draftsmanship as they intereacted with the entrepreneurial demands of rapidly developing international technology. The book as a whole therefore makes an important contribution to the history of engineering, as well as providing outstanding examples of the richness of the visual resources that emanated from the Industrial Revolution." - dust jacket description.
OCLC: 7176019
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