Mathematical Drawing Instruments 1895 eBay Item #1435162256 Hulme, F. Edward Mathematical Drawing Instruments, and How To Use Them, New York Bicknell and...
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DrawingInstruments@ya...
Jun 4, 2001 12:13 am
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the DrawingInstruments group: What time period(s) of instrument making are you primarily interested in?...
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DrawingInstruments@ya...
Jun 4, 2001 12:17 am
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the DrawingInstruments group: What country(s)/region(s) producing instruments are you primarily ...
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DrawingInstruments@ya...
Jun 4, 2001 12:20 am
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the DrawingInstruments group: What do you collect related to drawing instruments besides the...
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manfred_hausmann@...
Jun 4, 2001 9:45 am
I don't think the proposed polls are very meaningful. I hope that many members of this group have, like me, a very broad interest in tools of early engineering...
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tjstanton
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Jun 4, 2001 10:20 am
I like the polls, and took them. They can help survey general interest areas and should not be viewed as a way to narrow it (I moderate so I wouldn't let that...
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tjstanton
tom.stanton@...
Jun 4, 2001 10:39 am
Will buy or swap (if I have anything you want). I love the Minusa line. The design is a particularly pleasing variation on round instruments, with slender,...
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eocostello@...
Jun 5, 2001 11:58 pm
(1) I have the 1921 and 1954 catalogs. The 1921 catalog makes an extensive discussion (at page 92a) of the introduction of the Minusa line, owing to war...
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wayne
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Jun 6, 2001 1:40 am
Hi, My name is Wayne Feely and I started drafting as a high school freshman in the fall of 1945 at James Madison HS in Brooklyn NY. Our teacher was a wonderful...
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tjstanton
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Jun 6, 2001 2:23 am
Thanks, your catalog research bounds the product line. 30 years +/- a few years. The 1921 introduction also coincides with the American Art Deco movement and...
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shockbeton@...
Jun 8, 2001 4:41 pm
Hello, ... I have a Keuffel & Esser booklet with samples of their drafting media which includes one swatch of tracing cloth. The booklet is entitled: "K+E...
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shockbeton@...
Jun 8, 2001 5:24 pm
Mr. Stanton, In your "Re: Useful or Redundant; No Instructions" reply, you stated: "Until the 1940s it was common to pencil in a drawing and then go back over...
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Michael O'Leary
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Jun 8, 2001 5:43 pm
... From: <shockbeton@...> To: <DrawingInstruments@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 1:20 PM Subject: [Drawing Instruments] Re: Useful or...
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shockbeton@...
Jun 8, 2001 5:45 pm
I think a database of manufacturers will be valuable and I look forward to it's development. I'm wondering about its scope, though. What is the definition of a...
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shockbeton@...
Jun 8, 2001 6:23 pm
... here's a few: from 1960 Dietzgen cat: "The Drop Spring Bow (often referred to as Rotating Compass)..." also, I've seen them referred to as "Drop Pens," but...
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wayne
wef@...
Jun 8, 2001 8:12 pm
Now drawings can be produced Xerographically directly from an imaged surface. Before the 1960s light had to pass through the drawing to produce a blueprint or...
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shockbeton@...
Jun 8, 2001 10:37 pm
Hmmm. I don't think this is the whole story, Wayne. At some point in the 1960's or 1970s (I think. This was before my time. Does anyone know with more...
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eocostello@...
Jun 8, 2001 11:58 pm
Just as a starter for another thread, I've been fooling around a bit, with figuring out the dates for a number of K&E catalog editions (since the Minusa...
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Larry Stewart
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Jun 9, 2001 3:48 pm
Dennis: Wayne is 100% correct in his explanation. I've been an artist/illustrator for most of my life and even now I have to ink over the pencil lines, erase...
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DrawingInstruments@ya...
Jun 9, 2001 5:03 pm
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the DrawingInstruments group: Do you restore or refinish your drafting instruments? o Yes, consistently...
Hi, Do we have a place where photos can be exhibited and stored? Regards, Wayne...
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wayne
wef@...
Jun 10, 2001 1:34 am
Hi Dennis, There was more than one way of producing an opaque positive image from which a blueprint (negative image) could be reproduced. One of these was to...
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tjstanton
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Jun 10, 2001 9:07 am
Use the Files section of the group to upload scans, photos, and so on. SUGGESTIONS 1) Where possible, try to use JPEG file formats, or a GIF. Mac users may...
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tjstanton
tom.stanton@...
Jun 10, 2001 9:26 am
Wayne and Larry have it right. In my research the steps up through 1960 were: 1) One or more pencil sketches depending on the project. 2) A pencil working...
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tjstanton
tom.stanton@...
Jun 10, 2001 11:16 am
Those beautiful Minusa sets I so love were priced around $39.00 (for the 795-8) in the K+E 41st Edition Catalog Price List (October 15, 1949)). Using this...
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eocostello@...
Jun 10, 2001 6:55 pm
The recent discussions regarding pencilling/inking have intrigued me on one level, since I write on animation history for a handful of publications (and an...
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Coil, John
jcoil@...
Jun 11, 2001 2:07 am
To add my experience regarding drafting practice in the civil engineering field. About this same time frame 1960-65, the Rapidograph Pen (Sp ??) began ...
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Dick Rose
rarose@...
Jun 13, 2001 10:56 pm
Hi Group, Tom suggested that you might like to see the list of drafting instruments that I have for sale, so I am including it at the end of this note. If you...
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wayne
wef@...
Jun 14, 2001 12:02 am
Why not just publish your price list? I might be tempted by something! Cheers, Wayne...
