Apparatus Drawings Project

First edition, first printing (much of the material contained in the volume had previously appeared as separate essays and articles in the American Journal of Physics).  x, 290pp, with many technical drawings, diagrams and illustrations in text.  Burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spune.  4to.  Boards rounded at corners, cloth a little turned in and rubbed at spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

The Apparatus Drawing Project was an influential physics educational initiative launched in the early 1960s, primarily authored and illustrated by Robert G Marcley. Sponsored jointly by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics, the project aimed to standardise and distribute high-quality professional technical blueprints for laboratory equipment used in universities and research labs.  Previously physicists and teachers had to build their own experimental set ups, using varying, inconsistent and poorly documented schematics.  The project addressed this by providing complete, production-ready construction drawings alongside technical reports, enabling the construction of precise, reliable and cost-effective physics apparatus in machine shops across the world.  Marcley was renown for his incredible precise drafting.