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Barbara Mallut wrote: > > Charles M... > > Charlie... With all due respect to both you and Frank Lloyd Wright, > Thomas > Jefferson (THE Thomas Jefferson) is credited with creating not only > the > pantograph, but also the double pantograph. Jefferson was > ambidextrous, and > such a brilliant person and such a prolific writer that he actually > wrote TWO > DIFFERENT messages simultaneously with each hand using a double > pantograph. > > In addition to the above, he also used the double pantograph to create > "carbon > copies" of an original document for his records or to "CC" someone. > > And now back to our regular broadcast... <grin> > > Barb Mallut > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Parkinson's Information Exchange On Behalf Of Charles T. > Meyer > Sent: Friday, July 04, 1997 6:22 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN > Subject: Re: handwriting > > Ken Becker wrote: > > > > Phil, I just got an idea, and MAYBE it could be useful! They used > to > > sell a > > device, I think it was called a "pantograph", (unless that's used to > > write on > > one's trousers?) But it was a gadget that had a writing instrument > on > > one > > side and a stylus on the other, to be able to make a smaller image > > while > > tracing a larger one. It used a series of levers to accomplish > this. > > Maybe > > it could be adapted to work in reverse for a PWP to increase the > size > > of > > their handwriting. I hope this is a useful idea, but if not..we > could > > just > > write it off..........Ken B > Ken, > The pantograph was an archetectural tool first introduced by > Wiscosin's > own- cheesehead Frank Lloyd Write. OK folks sorry for that cheeeeezy > comment. > > Charlie > -- > ********************************************************** > CHARLES T. MEYER, M.D. > MADISON, WISCONSIN > ********************************************************** BARB, Why do you always have to confuse the issues with facts. You always have to have the WRITE answer. Charlie -- ********************************************************** CHARLES T. MEYER, M.D. MADISON, WISCONSIN **********************************************************