drafting table
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“Not the kind that lies inert on the drafting table, but the kind that sets skyscrapers soaring, flings bridges into space and sends imagination spinning into orbit.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
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
“The whole thing behind a lot of art now, it’s so conceptual, and there’s not much appreciation for craft,” Greenfield says, seated at a tidy drafting table in his home studio in Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2020
Although Mr. Hines did not work at a drafting table, some architects considered him almost an equal partner.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2020
In January 1937, with the Crocker Cracker’s blueprints on the drafting table, Ernest invited Weaver to visit Berkeley.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
