Engineering drawings are expressed in a graphic language, the grammar and syntax of which are learned through use; it also has idioms that only initiates will recognize. And because the drawings are neatly made and produced on large sheets of paper, they exhume an air of great authority and definitive completeness.


Engineering and the Mind's Eye - Chapter 1 (p. 3), The MIT Press. 1992

Eugene S. Ferguson Quotes

Engineering drawings are expressed in a graphic language, the grammar and syntax of which are learned through use; it also has idioms that only...

Engineering drawings are expressed in a graphic language, the grammar and syntax of which are learned through use; it also has idioms that only...

Engineering drawings are expressed in a graphic language, the grammar and syntax of which are learned through use; it also has idioms that only...

Engineering drawings are expressed in a graphic language, the grammar and syntax of which are learned through use; it also has idioms that only...