Where can I get old engineering drawings?
Where can I get old engineering drawings?
(OP)
I really like the old engineering drawings done by hand. I would guess that there are very few practicing engineers that could produce one anymore. It is a shame that it is a dead (or dying) art.
Has anyone come across any websites or other resources that have interesting old engineering drawings?
Has anyone come across any websites or other resources that have interesting old engineering drawings?





RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
I don't know if anyone can give out drawings.
Try a Google search.
It's not a dying art.
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RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
I have already tried Google, I have been able to find some.
I don't know anyone under 30 that has even had a course in mechanical drawing (by hand) in engineering school. It is all using CAD now. I have never met someone that still does hand drawings.
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
Damn glad to meet you.
Now you have met someone (that admits to being old).
I am sure others will chime in now.
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
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RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
I would agree that it is less common though. The only hand drafting I have done since school was for field rework. The parts were simple. However, it was certainly of immense value to be able to make a readable sketch. Nothing I would call art though... However, I don't think drafting by hand will ever die for this reason (field work). Maybe when we all get watches that function as a laptop, or are human brains surviving in robotic bodies (assuming the robotic body supplies CAD software of course)... ;)
Sorry for the deviation from the OP of where to find old drawings. I think most well-drawn old engineering drawings would be in the hands of engineering firms. Maybe call some older firms and see what you can arrange.
-- MechEng2005
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
My new workplace has no computer for me, so I'm draftng by hand again,
and I like it very much.
Try it Yourself instead of asking for other man's drawings.
I'm sure You like it.
Greetings.
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
I don't know where you are located, but I would contact the archive departments of engineering type museums. Most of the drawings they hold are in the public domain and copies are available. Search for "general arrangement drawings" first, a lot of city archives hold drawings from major manufacturers once in their area, jet engines from the fifties etc.
Nearly all steam railway engines anywhere in the world predate CAD and most are pre-mid twentieth century and beautifully drawn.
Happy hunting
Trevor Clarke. (R & D) Scientific Instruments.Somerset. UK
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RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
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RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
I'm only 26, and I learned drafting on a board, and have taken classes like descriptive geometry.
I couldn't do half of the 3D modeling as efficiently if I hadn't taken them and experienced them.
James Spisich
Design Engineer, CSWP
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
I don't have the time to do my drawings by hand. 3D software speeds thing up so much, and (when used properly)is a much wiser choice. Only problem is it has sucked some of the art out of mechanical design.
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
If you could get some of the older engineering text books you can see some very fine engineering drawings in foldouts.
You might get some of the older companies that have their drawings on Microfiche to print you out a couple. Also a lot of companies have their paper and linen drawings scanned into a database which makes them quite easy to copy.
As mentioned by Jspisich locomotive drawings are works of art. I would check with a model railway club near you or check one of their magazines for the availability of full size prints.
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
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RE: Where can I get old engineering drawings?
Try this googlebook and doing other searches on googlebook