Self-Help Mechanical Drawing: An Educational Treatise

It is because of a personal and practical experience of the advantage to be gained by the possession of a knowledge of drawing, that the author is prompted to undertake the rather pleasant task of producing a self-help book relating to the subject.

The author received personal instruction in several ways and times, at home, in school, in an architect’s office, and under an experienced mechanical engineer, but it was in the early morning hours of a bright summer time—lang syne—that he made his first serious attempt to master the art of mechanical drawing. It was a struggle and a battle to hold himself down to “the board” to the finish, but it was a victory—one, won over slothfulness and impatience, and of such a nature as to warrant the use of the term “self-help” to the encouragement of others.