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[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should post this in the mechanical engineering community. This is amazingly well done. We love this sort of stuff.

[–] HessiaNerd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's interesting they called first angle 'British Projection'. I can see calling third angle 'American Projection' cause of ANSI, but it is still kinda odd.

[–] SamJUK@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing. I’ve studying everything included in these notes, I understand it all. And in the years that I did study this, not one of my excise books of notepads was nearly as detailed. I’d ‘look up the slides’ or ‘google it’..

Science Technology Engineering Art and Mathematics in motion.

Thank you for sharing. These are beautiful notes.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great looking HAD drawings.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I wish I had an ounce of his talent.

[–] pacoo2454@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow! Thanks for posting this. I personally find this VERY interesting.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it's really interesting too, but he was my grandfather, so I'm biased. I wasn't really sure how interesting drawings of screw threads and gauges and calipers and such would be to other people.

[–] Naich@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those drawings are beautiful. I wish I could draw like that.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Me too. He tried to teach me some when I was a kid, but I just don't have the aptitude for it.

[–] Bach37strad@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Dude made his own pocket ref.

[–] Vengefu1Tuna@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I grew up in a sheet metal fabrication company in the US. It's wild to see drawings of measurement tools I'm familiar with from 80 years ago. I had no idea these designs were this old. This is so cool, thanks for sharing, OP!

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 8 points 1 year ago

Really cool. Thanks for digitizing it all.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Really cool item to have. Ty for sharing.

[–] CheeseBread@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

These are beautiful and way more than just mildly interesting.

[–] guycls@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The sacred texts!

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is so cool!

And it seems to ge written with a fountain pen. The times where people could write properly, beautifully, and made things to last.

I kind of regret being born in such a wasting consumption focused society...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely a fountain pen. This was before ballpoints.

[–] USER001@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

That is very impressive! I really like the detail view of the gauge indicator

[–] musicmind333@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)