Self-Help Mechanical Drawing: An Educational Treatise
by N. Hawkins
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- SELF-HELP MECHANICAL DRAWING AN EDUCATIONAL TREATISE
- Preface.
- Introduction.
- The Plan of the Work.
- Chalk Work.
- PREPARATORY PRACTICE IN DRAWING.
- PERPENDICULAR LINES.
- HORIZONTAL LINES.
- OBLIQUE LINES.
- BROKEN LINES.
- CURVED LINES.
- Preliminary Terms and Definitions.
- Free-Hand Drawing.
- POSITION.
- HOW TO CUT A PENCIL.
- HOW TO DRAW STRAIGHT LINES.
- TO DRAW THE FIRST OBLIQUE LINE.
- TO DRAW THE UPRIGHT OR PERPENDICULAR LINE.
- TO DRAW THE SECOND OBLIQUE LINE.
- ON FIGURES FORMED OF STRAIGHT LINES.
- ON CURVED LINES.
- EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE.
- Geometrical Drawing.
- GEOMETRICAL AXIOMS.
- Problems in Geometrical Drawing.
- Trigonometry.
- DEFINITIONS.
- Drawing Materials and Instruments.
- THE DRAWING BOARD.
- THE TEE-SQUARE.
- ADJUSTABLE BLADED SQUARE.
- TRIANGLES, OR SET-SQUARES.
- PARALLEL RULE.
- SECTION LINER.
- IRREGULAR CURVE OR SCROLL.
- ELLIPSES.
- DRAWING PENCILS.
- DIVIDERS AND COMPASSES.
- PROPORTIONAL DIVIDERS.
- COMPASSES.
- SPRING BOWS.
- BEAM COMPASSES AND TRAMMELS.
- DRAWING SCALES.
- DRAWING-PENS.
- DRAWING PAPER.
- Mechanical Drawing.
- Penciling.
- POINTS TO BE OBSERVED IN SKETCHING.
- Projection.
- “Inking In” Drawings.
- Lettering Drawings.
- Dimensioning Drawings.
- Shading Drawings.
- Section-Lining.
- TINTS AND COLORS.
- Reproducing Drawings.
- BLUE PRINTING.
- TEST-PIECES.
- BLACK PROCESS COPYING.
- Drawing Office Rules.[1]
- SIZE OF DRAWINGS.
- CHARACTER OF DRAWINGS.
- DRAWING SYMBOLS.
- STANDARDS.
- NUMBERING OF DRAWINGS.
- CHECKING.
- PATTERNS.
- SKETCH BOOKS.
- IN GENERAL.
- NUMBERING WORKING DRAWINGS.
- Gearing.
- Designing Gears.
- Working Drawings.
- BUMPING POST FOR RAILWAY TRACKS.
- To Read Working Drawings.
- Patent Office Drawing Rules.
- U. S. PATENT OFFICE RULES.
- AS APPLIED TO PREPARATION OF DRAWINGS.
- ENGLISH PRACTICE.
- Useful Hints and “Points.”
- Linear Perspective.
- Scale or Approximate Perspective.
- Useful Tables for Draughtsmen.
- TABLE OF DECIMAL EQUIVALENTS. 8ths, 16ths, 32ds and 64ths of an Inch.
- TABLE OF DECIMAL EQUIVALENTS Of Millimeters and Fractions of Millimeters.
- RULES RELATIVE TO THE CIRCLE.
- ROMAN TABLE.
- SOLID MEASURE, OR CUBIC MEASURE.
- CIRCULAR MEASURE.
- LONG MEASURE—MEASURES OF LENGTH.
- Tables of Diameters, Circumferences and Areas of Circles.
- UNITED STATES STANDARD SIZES OF WROUGHT IRON WELDED PIPE.
- STANDARDS FOR WIRE GAUGES IN USE IN THE UNITED STATES. Dimensions of Sizes in Decimal Parts of an Inch.
- UNITED STATES STANDARD SIZES OF BOLTS.
- UNITED STATES STANDARD SCREW THREAD GAUGE.
- Some Things Personal.
- Hawkins’ SelfHelp Mechanical Drawing. Index.
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