In 1794, technical education began at Ecole polytechnic in France. Monge and the polytechnic proposed the production systems that performed a design by a drawing. The curriculum of the new design system was the drawing course. The technical knowledge was recognized as knowledge of a university afterwards.
In 1877, the Japanese government introduced the technical education. The drawing course of the Meiji era included technology and science of the drawing. Details of the drawing course changed afterwards. The teacher limited contents of the drawing technology of a school to copying of a blueprint. The teacher limited contents of science of the drawing to the descriptive geometry at school. The drawing course changed to narrow-minded knowledge. The drawing course meant a subject of practical training of drawing and the descriptive geometry.
In 1947, the drawing course was taken over to a university. The university divided knowledge of the drawing course. The practical training and the descriptive geometry were promoted to an independent subject. On the other hand, the university lost knowledge of the drawing that include both technology and science. We forgot that the current drawing subject and the current descriptive geometry subject were part of the drawing course historically.

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