Jacques-Eugène Armengaud

Jacques-Eugène Armengaud (25 October 1810 – 23 January 1891) was a French industrial engineer, and professor of machine drawing at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), particularly known as the original author of The practical draughtsman's book of industrial design, 1851.

[6] The subtitle of the (translated) work already explains, that it wants to offer a "complete course of mechanical, engineering, and architectural drawing."

The study of those types of technical drawing, according to Armengaud, belong to the field of industrial design.

It ought to form an essential feature in the education of young persons for whatever profession or employment they may intend to select, as the great business of their lives; for without a knowledge of drawing, no scientific work, whether relating to Mechanics, Agriculture, or Manufactures, can be advantageously studied.

Two popular and influential writers of these works in Britain were Robert Scott Burn and William S. Binns.