Recent improvements in arts, manufactures, and mines : being a supplement to his Dictionary
A supplement to Andrew Ure's dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines, published in London in 1844 by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans as a technical record of recent industrial advances for engineers and manufacturers. Its pictures are numbered engraved line diagrams of apparatus: a still and condenser plant, a heated tank with coiled pipes, a mechanical press with a belt drive, and a geared shaft with angled arms. A designer might take from them the clean, labelled mechanical drawing style, with dense hatching, leader letters and exact linear geometry.
