. The practical draughtsman's book of industrial design, and machinist's and engineer's drawing companion: forming a complete course of mechanical, engineering, and architectural drawing . iienoiiiiil [Km n \mcmroux PREFACE. Industrial Design is destined to become a universal language; for in our material age of rapid transition from abstract,to applied, Science—in the midst of our extraordinary tendency towards the perfection of the means of conversion, ormanufacturing production—it must soon pass current in eveiy land. It is, indeed, the medium between Thought andExecution; by it alone can t


. The practical draughtsman's book of industrial design, and machinist's and engineer's drawing companion: forming a complete course of mechanical, engineering, and architectural drawing . iienoiiiiil [Km n \mcmroux PREFACE. Industrial Design is destined to become a universal language; for in our material age of rapid transition from abstract,to applied, Science—in the midst of our extraordinary tendency towards the perfection of the means of conversion, ormanufacturing production—it must soon pass current in eveiy land. It is, indeed, the medium between Thought andExecution; by it alone can the genius of Conception convey its meaning to the skill which executes—or suggestiveideas become living, practical realities. It is emphatically the exponent of the projected works of the PracticalEngineer, the Manufacturer, and the Builder; and by its aid only, is the Inventor enabled to express his views beforehe attempts to realise them. Boyle has remarked, in his early times, that the excellence of manufactures, and the facility of labour, would bemuch promoted, if the various expedients and contrivances which lie concealed in private hands, were, by reciprocalcommunica


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