Document Type: Textbook (Technical) Purpose: Training & Education Authority: Author Expertise

Scope: Textbook which details the rapid increase in technical illustration due to many factoers, especially war production. Author used his experience at Douglas Aircraft Company as a foundation. From Preface: "The widespread adoption of perspective illustration as a medium of engineering presentation has been so sudden, and its application so varied, that from many quarters a demand has arisen for an exposition of the principles and techniques which have been confirmed by actual industrial usage. By presenting them in this book for the study and guidance of technical illustrators, production plants, specialized training classes, and schools and colleges, it is my intention to integrate the various forms and processes of production illustration so that trends now divergent may be directed, in some measure, along secure channels. It is hoped that this effort will aid the universal acceptance of production illustration as the significant engineering language which it has proved itself to be."

Contents (from the table of contents): "Part One 1. Introduction 2. Drafting Standards and Practices 3. Shading Techniques 4. Reproduction Aids 5. Reproduction Methods for Distribution 6. Photographic Illustrations 7. Linear Perspective 8. Freehand Drawing

Part Two 9. General Uses of Illustrations 10. The Introduction of Production Illustration 11. Organization of an Illustration Department 12. General Reference Illustrations 13. Perspective Engineering Drawings 14. Manufacturing Illustrations 15. Miscellaneous Applications

Appendix 1. The Perspective Drawing Board 2. Function Illustration 3. Prepared Shading Mediums and Symbols 4. Instruction in Production Illustration"