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
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
“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
Dad was at the drafting table, working on some calculations, and Mom was going through her stacks of paintings.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
