Here are some illustrations and the foreword to the book. Amazing illustrations. This will definitely make you appreciate your power tools while increasing your respect for classic tools and methods.
https://lostartpress.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/book_plates_excerpt.pdf
Here is the whole book in a flip through version. Best viewed on a large monitor.
https://archive.org/stream/gri_33125009321916#page/n113/mode/2up
One interesting point is the proportions of things like the workbench, clearly built for people of small size. We tend to forget that it wasn't until the development of better nutrition, especially the Post WWII availablity of vitamin supplements that we started getting the giant people that are average height today. I also noticed the leveling off then drop in height in the USA post 1950, concurrent with the growth of fast food in the USA. Europe, which resisted fast food, continued increasing height.
https://lostartpress.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/book_plates_excerpt.pdf
Here is the whole book in a flip through version. Best viewed on a large monitor.
https://archive.org/stream/gri_33125009321916#page/n113/mode/2up
One interesting point is the proportions of things like the workbench, clearly built for people of small size. We tend to forget that it wasn't until the development of better nutrition, especially the Post WWII availablity of vitamin supplements that we started getting the giant people that are average height today. I also noticed the leveling off then drop in height in the USA post 1950, concurrent with the growth of fast food in the USA. Europe, which resisted fast food, continued increasing height.