JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I enjoy stages-of-construction series of illustrations, showing how cars are made, or boxes, or trenches, and so on. Sometimes the object being constructed is relatively simple enough and the components few enough that the thing could actually be built from the series of pictures--most of the time, this is not the case, though they do give a good idea of the procedure of construction and the background to it. "The Creation of a Military Aeroplane--a Long and Complex Task" by the prolific and highly detailed G.H. Davis for the Illustrated London News (August 11, 1934) is a good one-page example of this process:
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