When resources are plentiful, apparatus can be shuffled so that those equipped for drafting can do so, but when resources are limited, any missing drafting equipment can prove costly.

In the early '60's, all freshmen at Worcester Polytechnic Institute had to take a semester of mechanical drawing and another semester of descriptive geometry. So we all bought drafting sets and a ...

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