Found this doc in an old drawer. What is it?

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1. It’s a technical drawing exam paper.

2. IKEA BC

3. It’s part of a technical drawing leaving cert paper.

   *Correction – it’s an old Group Certificate exam paper for vocational students.

4. Exam paper from 1957 mechanical lines

5. It’s a diagram for summoning a joiner. Hard times trying to find tradespeople. Worth a shot I’d say

6. Technical or mechanical drawing subject paper… jesus this brings back memories almost scared me away from being an engineer until I discovered CAD

7. Looks like the practical exam for wood work.

8. It shows how to make a cutter for a spindle moulder, its been a while since my apprenticeship

9. Recipe for IKEA meatballs

10. Da vinci lost work.

11. Flux capacitor

12. It’s the “Images” page as part of a state exam paper from 1957. The questions would have been on a separate sheet. Mechanical drawing using pencils. It’s kind of cool- using the old official state font for Irish. some kitchy antiques shop would put it on a cardboard backing and sell it for €20.

13. It’s a plumbus.

14. Nightmare inducing flashbacks

15. Time machine

16. The bane of my life in secondary school, until I dropped out in 5th year.

17. The time cube

18. Not to be pithy but “READ CAREFULLY THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE
    **EXAMINATION PAPER**”

19. [it’s a blue print for a time machine](https://youtube.com/shorts/SIjPRoyJkfU?feature=share). No it isn’t, it’s a drawing of eh, a pheasant!

20. Irish

21. wardrobe design from IKEA by the looks of it 👍

22. Looks sort of like a piece drawing for a locking mechanism that you might have done as part of a metalwork or engineering project

    Or most likely woodworking, the piece top left looks like it would be made of wood

23. A flying machine designed by none other than Leonardo da Vinci.

24. Keep it or donate it to a museum. Don’t toss it. It’s not worth much money but culturally it would be to a museum. https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Contact

25. You might notice the numbers are all quite “round”, no really awkward fractions etc. My applied maths teacher had old exams from the 70s, we were allowed use calculators in exams at this time (90s). In the old exams he said numbers were kept simple as the aim was to test the knowledge of the theory, and was not meant to be a test of simple arithmetic. i.e. They did not want students wasting time doing long division etc -similar to why calculators were allowed in some exams.

26. It’s a small box to store items in that slides in and out of a larger box.

27. Orthographic projection