drafting table
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Aides insisted the aging Indiana had created it, but acknowledged that a picture sent to the sausage company showing Indiana at a drafting table with the design in front of him might have been photoshopped.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
In retrospect, it’s absurd to think that architecture might have been reinvented — or even mildly rethought — by high-concept design that doesn’t get off the drafting table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
This was before computer graphics or computer modeling, when architects and engineers worked on a drafting table with a T-square and slide rule.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2021
Originally developed for the Air Force, the minute the thing was on the drafting table, the Navy and Marines started crying, "Hey, what about us?"
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2021
Five days later, Werner March, stooping over his drafting table, had only until morning before he must lay preliminary plans in front of Hitler.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
