Regardless of all the statements and the talk about what is the oldest profession in the world, drafting is the only profession that historically can be documented.

Drafting is defined as a descriptive way to deliver an idea with the use of illustrations and drawings that show in detail the process of creating the idea into reality. This process dates back to millions of years ago when primitive drafters illustrated on the walls of caves the process by which they lived, hunted, worshiped, and died. 

Over the next million years this process changed little except by the method used to draw, paint, and preserve the illustrations. The greatest changes are noted during the Egyptian and Chinese Empires and the development of rice paper and the methods of presenting ideas.  This was the beginning of drafting as we know it today and other than the tools used to make drawings more accurate and legible very little changed until the creation of the modern electronic devises that we have used over the last 75 years. Drafting is the basis of everything that is usable. 

Mathematics and Sciences are the foundation from which drafters work.   There is nothing manufactured or process carried out without the aid of drafting.  Everything that a person can hold in their hand, feel, or touch has some type of drawing or illustration created for the production of that product.  When most people think of drafting they think of Skyscrapers, Beautiful Homes or maybe a complicated electronic devise such as a computer. 

There are almost one hundred different work disciplines for drafters and designers.  These include Aerospace, Highways, Parks and Recreation, Electronic, Nano-Technology, Medical, Furniture, High Voltage Electricity, Automotive and many more. 

Think about going to the hospital, look around at all the equipment and gadgets, consider having surgery and all the tools that are used, having a knee implant that is specifically designed to fit your bones or even wearing a band-aid, all of these are manufactured by the aid of a drawing.  Engineers, Architects, Scientist, Doctors, Physicist, and even Composers used drafting to create the final product. 

All of the worlds greatest inventions, thoughts and improvements end up as a drawing and the drafter is that invisible person who in reality makes dreams come true.