A practical treatise on mine engineering
A practical treatise on mine engineering by G.C. Greenwell, published in 1855 by Lambert, a technical manual for mining engineers and those working in the mining trade. Its plates show tall cylindrical shafts or pipes drawn in flat grey wash with flanged ends and banded joints, and one sheet of gearing and machinery in plan, with shafting, pulleys and a drum set between stone-walled sections. A designer might take from them the clean, mechanical drawing style of 19th-century engineering plates and their precise line work.
