This section is from the book "The Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia", by Luke Hebert. Also available from Amazon: Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia.
Designing is the art of delineating or drawing the appearance of objects by lines on a plane; but,the term is more generally understood to apply to the first sketch of a work which it is intended afterwards to execute with greater accuracy of detail or of finish, or upon a different scale of magnitude. A design bears the same relation to drawing and painting as a model does to the making of a machine or building.
 
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