pentagraph

"I have warmed up," he concludes, "an old idea, and can make a machine in which the pentagraph and the leading screw will all be contained in the beam, and the pattern and piece to be cut will remain at rest fixed upon a lath of cast iron or stout steel."

Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858

The accompanying profiles were mostly taken by a pentagraph from the wax figures now exhibiting through the country by Pendleton & Curtiss, which are striking and accurate likenesses of the Africans, taken from life by Mr. Moulthrop, and are mathematically correct.

A history of the Amistad captives : being a circumstantial account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board; their voyage, and capture near Long Island, New York : with biographical sketches of each of the surviving Africans; also, an account of the trials had on their case, before the district and circuit courts of the United States, for the District of Connecticut John Warner Barber 1840

A small aperture in the wall, opposite the seat in which the person is placed whose profile is taken, conceals a camera lucida, which is placed in an adjoining apartment: and an assistant, by moving a point, connected by a pentagraph with the hand of the automaton, over the outline of the head, causes the figure to trace a corresponding profile.

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831

And, wherever a greater scale was needed, the pentagraph afforded a sufficiently accurate plan of forming maps to it.

Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829

The wingtensity pentagraph yielded shocking, yet entirely accurate, results.

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The wingtensity pentagraph yielded shocking, yet entirely accurate, results.

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