Excerpt from Some Industrial Art Schools of Europe and Their Lessons for the United States: Extracts From the Studies Made for the French Government
Drawing is the foundation of all manufacture. Whether it is the making of a tiny screw or a public building, a letterhead, or a piece of brocade, the man behind the pencil is as important in the industrial struggle as the man behind the gun in the mili tary war.
The architects of the New York Public Library state that they furnished for this building about finished drawings, for each one of which 8 to 10 sketches were required. The contractors made about shop drawings, and in the execution of the work there were required to blue prints taken from the drawings referred to above. For the construction of an ordinary type of steam engine about 800 drawings are made in the shop, and this does not by any means take into consideration the drawings for the com ponent parts, such as bolts, castings, forgings, etc.
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