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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 **********************************************************