Not a pleasant subject, but this is one of the oldest known cutaway drawings. It’s a cross-section ... highlights the self-trimming design of inventor and engineer Sir Henry Bessemer, which ...

Cutaway or cross-section drawings are mostly just fancy residues of a long-gone era when engineering and architecture visualisation was based on hand-drawn images that were often closer to art ...

It’s why we feature such drawings on these pages ... The New Jersey native attended the Otis-Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles (now the Otis College of Art and Design).

Every week, it featured clear yet complex cutaway drawings of everything from new ... predicted in the text accompanying this cutaway. The design’s final flight was in July 2001, almost exactly ...