Selection of the practical points of malting and brewing : and strictures thereon for the use of brewery proprietors
A technical manual of 1881 by James Steel, published in London by E. & F. N. Spon, aimed at brewery proprietors and covering malting and brewing practice. Its plates are engineering diagrams: a shaded vessel profile with a horizontal reference line, angled trusswork, a stepped graph labelled with numbered points, and a water hardening tower with pipes, pulleys and a bucket. Designers could draw on the clean line-and-shade vocabulary of Victorian industrial technical drawing, with its precise labelling and tonal shading.
