Architectural drawing : a textbook that combines the parctical instructions and examples that the student needs, with the suggestive programs, supplementary problems, etc, required by the teacher, written by an architect of wide experience who has also taught the subject for years at Teachers' College, Columbia University, and Mechanics' Institute, New York (1920)
Teale, Oscar S · New York : U.P.C. Book · leaf 36
nt. -The French Curve is a veryIts use as before explained, is TOOLS—IN PRACTICE 33 to aid in the making of curved lines such as cannotbe well made with a compass (sweep) or free-hand.With a proper form of French Curve,* and carefulhandling of it, a very close approximation to an ellipsecan be… … other should be so manipulated that the point ofintersection, though perhaps a microscopic angle, isreduced to a minimum, if not disguised entirely. By a dexterous use of the French Curve a clean,sharp line can be made with either lead pencil or rul-
Architectural drawing
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