Inside Out Library

Mechanical drawing for trade schools

Leeds, Charles Carley, 1870- · 1911 · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · 54 pictures

A mechanical drawing textbook by Charles Carley Leeds, published by D. Van Nostrand in New York in 1911 for trade school students learning shop drafting. Plates are line drawings of machine parts — pulleys, flanges, stepped shafts, keyways — with center lines, dashed hidden edges, arrowed dimension strings and fractional inch figures on tan paper, useful as technical-diagram texture or measured ornament.

Mechanical drawing

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0