As a boy he showed marked taste for natural history and ability as adraughtsman.
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In drawing the lines to show where the cut edges would be, he encountered the familiar problem of thedraughtsman: how do the lines cross?
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He also asked for measuring instruments to calculate the latitude of the mines, a portable laboratory for chemical tests of the minerals, and adraughtsman.
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When thedraughtsmanhad enough time and the place was not large, he drew the shapes of observed objects.
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Those materials that make the cut may go on to thedraughtsmanor photographer where they will enter new processes of mediation.
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What thedraughtsmanhas done and done clearly and with no little ingenuity, and producing an excellent and intelligible result, is thi3.
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It is a little difficult to distinguish between a clerical worker and, say, adraughtsman, who is accommodated in the office.
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The point has not escaped thedraughtsmanwho advises us in these matters.
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The demand for draughtsmen and stressmen forms a bottleneck which impedes progress at this moment.
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Whether such firms are manufacturers or engaged in scientific and research activities, draughtsmen are almost ubiquitous in industry.
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I am certain that our draughtsmen, if given the task, can provide plans for civil aeroplanes just as good as, if not better than, those.
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The earnings of engineers and draughtsmen vary, and may overlap, according to the degree of their skills, and separate estimates have therefore not been made.
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It will mean that we shall have to decentralise our designs, staffs, technicians and draughtsmen.
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These figures include officers and other ranks of the trades of trigonometrical surveyor, topographical surveyor and topographicaldraughtsman.
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He took a postal draughtsman's course and exhausted his capital on his studies and the equipment necessary to pursue his occupation.
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