Template:Did you know nominations/Marquois scales
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The result was: promoted by Coolperson177 (talk) 18:09, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
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Marquois scales
Marquois Scales
- ... that entry to the British Royal Military Academy required the use of a peculiar drawing triangle (pictured) with a completely different purpose from those used today? Source: "A University candidate ... must produce satisfactory evidence that he has attained the standard of Mathematics required of a candidate for admission to the Royal Military Academy, which is as follows:- ... -Geometrical drawing and other practical geometry ... including the use of Marquois and other scales." (1905) http://www.jstor.org/stable/3603903
Created by Odd.stuff (talk). Self-nominated at 04:44, 29 December 2021 (UTC).
Meets newness and length requirements, no close paraphrasing detected. Interesting hook, directly cited. User's first nomination so no QPQ needed. I lightly copyedited and added a tidbit about the tools falling out of fashion among non-military draftsmen in the 1900s. @Odd.stuff: Can we add a citation to the last paragraph regarding regular set squares? DigitalIceAge (talk) 07:32, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
- To help things along, I have added the citations as requested. I adjusted the url so that you can read the text yourself. It's got me thinking, though. My father (an architect) had t-squares, which I still have. But there was a triangular set square too - and all his stuff was second hand and very old (that was normal for his generation) ... I wonder ... ? Storye book (talk) 21:23, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Changes look good. (My dad has oodles of old drawing tools he's gotten secondhand, even though he's been using a computer to draw since the '80s... They have a certain allure, for sure.) DigitalIceAge (talk) 03:56, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
- To Prep 7. — Coolperson177 (t|c) 18:09, 6 January 2022 (UTC)