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One of his most famous inventions was the Benton Pantograph, an engraving machine which not only was capable of scaling a single font design pattern to a variety of sizes, but could also condense, extend, and slant the design. [5]
Drafting pantograph in use Pantograph used for scaling a picture. The red shape is traced and enlarged. Pantograph 3d rendering. A pantograph (from Greek παντ- 'all, every' and γραφ- 'to write', from their original use for copying writing) is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical ...
The Ultimate History of Video Games (ISBN 0-7615-3643-4) by Steven L. Kent. The updated version of the previous book. This time the author takes the history further into the 1990s, reaching the beginning of the millennium. The Video Games Textbook: History • Business • Technology: (ISBN 978-0815390893) by Dr. Brian J. Wardyga [1]
One of the most influential and popular gamebook series was the Fighting Fantasy series, which started in 1980 when a Puffin Books representative saw a hall full of 5,000 people playing Dungeons & Dragons and asked Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson to make a book about role-playing games. They instead offered the idea of a book which simulated ...
Edmond Hoyle (1672 – 29 August 1769) [2] was an English writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games.The phrase "according to Hoyle" (meaning "strictly according to the rules") came into the language as a reflection of his broadly perceived authority on the subject; [2] use of the phrase has since expanded to any appeal to a putative authority.
Part mystery, part adventure, all word game -- in today's Game of the Day, The Book of Treasures, you play as Jessica, a librarian hunting for a lost Egyptian manuscript. One day, Jessica finds a ...
Robert Charles Bell (1917–2002) was the author of several books on board games, most importantly Board and Table Games 1 & 2 (reprinted as Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations). This work won the Premier Award of the Doctors' Hobbies Exhibition, London.
There was passing interest in microprinting as a solution to book storage in libraries in the 1940s. Librarian Fremont Rider championed microprinting over micro-film for its reduced cost. He also suggested that entire books could be printed on the backs of library catalog cards, which are generally blank, replacing the storage of full-sized ...