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Offset Pointers (Board Parallel)

A sight aligns a pointer to tracing from life while the stylus draws on the adjacent drawing board.

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Diagraph

Edouard Deville

1895

Perspective Machine

James Watt

1765

Scenographic Instrument

Christopher Wren

Circa 1650

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