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March 3

find answer to my previous asked question

not a computer person but asked about my columbian friend problem about staying in uk

had good answers but can find where thay are now?

Davidallen1961 (talk) 01:17, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Click here: Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Miscellaneous#Colombian_in_uk. StuRat (talk) 01:37, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

help

undefined find — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidallen1961 (talk • contribs) 02:02, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

~~Geez, look back 2 questions. StuRat (talk) 02:28, 3 March 2013 (UTC)~~[reply]

Try 8 questions. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 03:17, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

He had asked a second time, two questions later. Somebody subsequently combined them both into one, making my comment meaningless. StuRat (talk) 03:19, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bind a dx6i ?

how to bind a dx6i to spektrum beastx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.232.5.148 (talk) 01:35, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I added a title, but have no idea what this question is about. Is a dx6i a laser, a speedboat, a video game ? StuRat (talk) 01:38, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Spektrum RC makes radio systems for controlling model cars and aircraft. The dx6i is a radio transmitter that they make, and the beastx is a receiver that goes into a model helicopter. And with all of that, I haven't the slightest idea what the answer to the question is, and I would be amazed if anybody here does. Looie496 (talk) 03:03, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Does this help? Or perhaps one of the other pages listed? CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 10:45, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Omnia vincit tapus ductia. Ipse fixit. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:18, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reproducing old-timey drawings exactly as the original artists would have

I'm reading this book and, for instance, on page 8 (which is available using the "Look Inside" feature, looking at the drawings, how exactly would have the artist produced those pictures? 1)Type of pen. 2)Freehand or using compass and straight edge and other helps (in which case, what?)? This style seems recognizable to me as fairly common not only in this book, but elsewhere as well. One could almost call it "patent style" but it's found many other places as well, as far as the styld of the drawings and the style of the numbers.67.163.109.173 (talk) 21:25, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The book was first published in 1868, before commercial photoengraving would have allowed reproduction of pen drawings. I'd say they were engraved on wood blocks. --Nicknack009 (talk) 21:35, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for leading me in the direction to an answer as to how it was likely actually done. I'm going to read that article, but it's going to take a while to read carefully. So they carved out "positives"? that is, everything except the lines?67.163.109.173 (talk) 21:38, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I can't answer the specifics there, but the reason everything is so standardized-looking is because technical drawing was a standard skill as part of an engineering education, and it was indeed highly standardized for both legal and professional reasons. (Today I believe most of it is done with computers.) Our article describes various instruments used in the past for achieving those uniform appearances. What you're looking for, basically, is a 19th century textbook on technical drawing — there are many available through Google Books. --Mr.98 (talk) 21:40, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Sir (I assume, by the Mr aspect of your name). I'm going to read the one by a Mr. George Christian Mast in 1874. I can guess that he will write about how to do it with pen and paper, while the plates themselves may have been produced as wood carvings. 67.163.109.173 (talk) 21:44, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't myself know how to recognize them, but I do know there were multiple processes in use at that time, including engraving, etching, and lithography. Looie496 (talk) 00:37, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Etchings and lithographs would usually have been printed on separate sheets of better quality paper bound into the book - illustrations that appear on regular pages would usually have been wood engravings. And yes, with wood engravings you carve out everything but the lines. Etchings cut the lines into a special coating (the "ground") on a copper plate, which are then cut deeper ("etched") into the plate with acid (the ground protects the plate from the acid where it hasn't been cut away). The ink is pressed into the lines and cleaned off the flat of the plate, and the pressure of the printing press forces ink out of the lines onto the paper. Lithography is similar but simpler, where the lines are cut into a wax or oil coating which rejects ink, so the ink only adheres to the lines you've drawn. --Nicknack009 (talk) 10:07, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]