ABSTRACT
Drawing for design tended to fall into two opposing camps. The naturalistic approach that was championed by Ruskin and Haydon and their followers, which was contrasted to the engagement with geometry and the scientific approach to the use of drawing, promoted by such as Dyce and the engineer Nasmyth. It is emphatically the exponent of the projected works of the Practical Engineer, the Manufacturer, and the Builder; and by its aid only, is the Inventor enabled to express his views before he attempts to realise them. The special mission of the Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design may almost be gathered from its title-page. The work is comprised within nine divisions, appropriated to the different branches of Industrial Design. It comprises the theory and practice of drawing Bevil, Conical, or Angular Wheels, with details of the construction of the wood patterns, and notices of peculiar forms of some gearing, as well as the eccentrics employed in mechanical construction.
