drafting table

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Naidorf remembers, at age 8, designing a three-bedroom house, using a card table as a makeshift drafting table.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

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

Although Mr. Hines did not work at a drafting table, some architects considered him almost an equal partner.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2020

The control console had been relocated in accordance with John Lawrence’s instructions, though it was now jammed in a crowded room between Cooksey’s workbench and a drafting table.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik