Technical drawing
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Technical drawing, also known as drafting or draughting, is the act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or is to be constructed.
History
[edit]Early civilisation
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Statues of Gudea, ca. 2144 - 2124 BC
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1891 drawing of statue of Gudea as architect
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Fragment of the Severan Marble Plan of Rome, showing the Theatre of Pompey, 203-211
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Other fragment of Severan Marble Plan of Rome
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Other fragment of Severan Marble Plan of Rome
Middle Ages
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Vivarium from Bamberg manuscript of Cassiodorus Institutiones, 8th c.
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Plan of Saint Gall, early 9th c.
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Plan of Saint Gall (detail), early 9th c.
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Al-Muradi, The Book of Secrets in the Results of Thoughts, 11th c.
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Al-Jazari Automata, 1205
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Al-Jazari water device, 13th c.
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Al-Jazari Musical Toy, 13th c.
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Page from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230
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Page from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230
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Page from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230
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Buttress at Reims from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230-35
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Sections of piers from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230-35
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Perpetuum Mobile of Villard de Honnecourt, c. 1230
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Histoire du bon roi Alexandre (Alexanderroman), Szene: Le chastel dou Cahaire, 13th c.
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Façade of Strasbourg Cathedral by Opicinus de Canistris, 1260s
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Cathedral of Pavia by Opicinus de Canistris, Avignon, France; 1335–50
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Sketch of a crank wagon by Guido da Vigevano, 14th c.
Renaissance
[edit]- 15th century
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Machines by Taccola (1382–1453), 15th c.
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Overbalanced wheel by Taccola (1382–1453), 15th c.
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Spinnrad in Housebook of Schloss Wolfegg, 1480
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Stampfwerk in Housebook of Schloss Wolfegg, 1480
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Drehbank in Housebook of Schloss Wolfegg, 1480
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Lorenz Lechner, Unterweisung, ca. 1500, fol. 41
- 16th century
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Baldassare Peruzzi, Design for an altar, 1527.
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Albrecht Durer, 1525
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Sketch of the Arch of Janus by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484 – 1546)
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio & Walther Hermann Ryff, 1575
17th century
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Plan for Skokloster Castle, 1650
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Plan for Skokloster Castle, 1650
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Plan for Skokloster Castle, 1669
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Plan for Skokloster Castle, 1669
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1673
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1673
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1673
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1673
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1673
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1689
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1689
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1697
18th century
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Ichnographica Rustica, 1718
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Palazzo by Marcus Tuscher, 1729
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Martinikirche, Bremen by J D Heinbach, 1734
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Monument to Frederick V by Marcus Tuscher, 1750
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Blackfriars Bridge, London, under construction in 1764
19th century
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Instruments for making perspective drawings, 1814
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Farey's Elliptograph, 1825
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A Treatise on the Steam Engine, 1827
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Plates on the bazar and bathhouse, 1840
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Montage Plan Weltausstellung, 1873
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Coffee Tavern, Cranbrook, Kent, 1880
20th century
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Nuruosmaniye Mosque Gurlitt, 1912,
21st century
[edit]Types of technical drawings
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Technical drawing by field
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Civil engineering drawing
Technical drawing by theme
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Technical drawing discipline
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15th-18th century
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Benedikt Rejt, early 16th c.
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1525
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1525
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1525
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1525
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1525
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1525
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Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527-1604), 16th c.
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1607
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1607
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1607
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1626
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1696
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1710
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1718
19th century
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ca. 1864
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1879
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1860-1890s
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1893
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1896
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Late 19th c.
20th century
[edit]20th century, first part
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1900
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1908
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Early 20th c.
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1920s
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1920s
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1922-25
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1937
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1940-45
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1940s
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1941-45
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1943
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1945
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1949
20th century, second part
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1950s
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1952
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1953
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1954
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1955
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1957
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1958
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1959
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1960
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1960
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1960
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1961
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1961
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1962
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1963
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1963
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1967
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1970s
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1970s
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1973
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1973
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1973
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1974
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1975
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1975
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1978
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1978
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1979
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1979
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1979
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1980
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1982
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1987
21st century
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2002
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2002
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2003
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2003
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2007
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2010