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   Farey
   John
   J F. ; Farey Jnr. ;
   
   
   1791 Lambeth, London
   1851
   Sevenoaks, Kent
   geologist John Farey Sen. (1766-1826)
   
   mechanical engineering
   United Kingdom
   John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory & Newton Bosworth: Pantologia, 1813; Rees's Cyclopaedia (1805-20); John Smeaton's Reports, 1812; William Pearson (1767-1847): An introduction to practical astronomy (London, 1829).
   
   steel engraver ->Wilson Lowry ; artist ->Sydenham Edwards ; artist -> John Smeaton ; engr. -> Thomas Bradley
   astronomical, mechanical & technical drawing with the aid of a camera lucida
   http://www.royalobservatorygreenwich.org/articles.php?article=1087
   https://www.revue-textimage.com/11_illustration_science/robertson3.html
   AKL ; Frances Robertson: Delineating a Rational Profession: The Machine Drawings of Engineers in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, Textimage 7 (2015), part 3; A.P. Woolrich: J.F., technical author & draughtsman - his contributions to Rees' Cyclopedia, industrial Archaeology Review 20 (1998): 49-67; J.F. and the Smeaton manuscripts, History of technology 10 (1985): 181-216.
   Inventor of ellipsograph. J.F. also published the article on drawing in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopedia
   79014457
   
   







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