- Nifty
- 07.14.10
- Clairefontaine, Miquelrius, Moleskine, Pen & Ink, Places to Buy, Scientific, Whitelines, computation pad, engineering, grid lines, legal paper, questions, thick notebooks, where to buy, where to find, wide rule
The readers of this blog continue to challenge my notebook wisdom, proving again that I’m more of an enthusiast than an expert. But maybe others will have suggestions, so I share these with all of you: From Bobby: I’m trying to find a notebook that is “normal” sized ~8.5×11 and is cream/light green colored like [...]
- Nifty
- 08.19.09
- antique, Diary, My Collection, Nostalgia, Scientific, 1945, calendar, Diary, engineering, gilt-edge, leather, maps, Scientific, westinghouse
Here’s another neat little item purchased on EBay: This is a sub-category of notebooks that I could happily collect: small promotional diaries given out to the employees or business partners of various corporations. I have ones in my collection from Sandoz, GE, and the Harvard Coop, and this Westinghouse one was a great addition. First [...]
- Nifty
- 08.07.09
- Art, My Collection, Nostalgia, Personal, Scientific, sketchbook, boorum pease, engineering, field book, graph, gridded, hardcover, mining transit, science, waterproof
A couple months ago I posted about the artist David Fullarton and wondered where I could get a notebook like the one he used for his work. Well, it turns out I had only to look in my own collection! The unusual gridded pages appearing in Fullarton’s artwork come from an engineer’s field book like [...]
An interesting story I stumbled across: Retired colonel sees a rich future in hardbound print: The Book Factory produces custom books, lab notebooks, log books, journals. DAYTON — Don’t tell Andrew Gilmore that print and high-tech can’t be married. As president of the Book Factory, Gilmore presided over the wedding ceremony. Gilmore, 54, is a [...]
Here’s another wonderful notebook from the past. It belonged to James Haden (1790 – 1871), a member of a family engineering firm in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. James was “the partner in the firm who travelled the country erecting, supervising and taking orders for the installation of warm air heating & ventilating stoves and expanding the [...]