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SELF-HELP
MECHANICAL DRAWING
AN EDUCATIONAL TREATISE
“LEARN TO DO A THING BY DOING IT.”—OLDPROVERB
SELF-HELP
MECHANICAL DRAWING
AN EDUCATIONAL TREATISE
BY
N. HAWKINS, M. E.
Author of Handbook of Calculations, etc.
New York: THEO. AUDEL & CO.,Publishers
1902
Copyrighted
by
Theo. Audel & Co.
New York
1902
This work
is
most kindly and
respectfully dedicated to
THE COMING MAN
who at the present time
is undoubtedly devoting
a goodly share of
his spare time to
the study of
drawing.
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Preface.
It is because of a personal and practical experience of the advantage to be gained by thepossession of a knowledge of drawing, that the author is prompted to undertake the rather pleasanttask of producing a self-help book relating to the subject.
Since the days of youthful endeavor, the author has passed through an extended experienceof mechanical life, and scarcely ever without chalk, pencil or instrument in hand, to illustrate bysketch or drawing, the tools to