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...beat the language barrier between man and machine. Itek has, in effect, hitched the digital computer to the draftsman's stylus. With a photoelectric light pen, the operator of an EDM can formulate engineering problems graphically (instead of reducing them to equations) on a console that looks like a flat, unflickering television screen. The operator's designs pass through the console into an inexpensive computer, which solves the problems and stores the answers in its memory banks in both digitalized form and on microfilm. By simply pressing buttons and sketching with the light pen, the engineer may enter...
...afternoon in 1890 the Chicago architect Louis Sullivan bustled into the office of his chief draftsman, Frank Lloyd Wright, and tossed onto the table his plans for a new building in St. Louis. "Look at it!" cried Sullivan triumphantly. "It's tall! Sullivan had good reason to boast: he had given form and logic to the skyscraper for the first time. A readable and richly illustrated new book called Architecture Today and Tomorrow (McGraw-Hill; $17.50) takes off from that boast to trace the rise of modern architecture-and the lively rebellion against it among the modernists themselves...
...year of his life. Compared with the more spectacular romantics, he seemed rough and unfinished. Nor did he understand the work of the new impressionists ("Who on earth forces you to show such horrors?" he asked a gallery owner who was exhibiting work by Monet). He was a superlative draftsman whose brush drew spare and strong, and whose preoccupation was people. His people-often molded like sculpture and bathed in a somber but acid light-picnicked, gossiped, argued in court, rode on buses. But no matter how ordinary their acts, Daumier gave drama and dignity to their lives...
After graduation Senor Ray went to work for the Ministry of Public Works, as a draftsman "working on ditches." Then he got a scholarship for graduate work at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City. "I was working toward my Master's; it is the only thing in my life I have never finish." He returned to Havana to teach Structural Science at the University. At the same time he became chief of the Structural Department in the National Development Commission...
...many of today's enthusiasts still prefer to build their own rather than buy mass-produced kits or blueprints. San Diego's Jim Cassell and Don Machado, both technical illustrators, are designing a helicopter that will fold its rotors, drive like a car on the ground. Draftsman Herman Saalfeld of San Diego planned his own 6-ft. 6-in. Skyshooter, a sophisticated chopper that carries two passengers in a bubble canopy, boasts a top speed of 95 m.p.h. and a range of 250 miles. "I don't know how high the damned thing will go," says Saalfeld...