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Offline dbishopbliss

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on: July 26, 2013, 02:36:55 AM
My company has just remodeled the offices where I work and I have been moved to a new office after 10 years (Wow, did I collect a lot of junk, but that's besides the point).  I now have a very large blank wall. 

After seeing the photo in the Western Electric article, it made me think that it could be cool (to me at least) to print out something "artistic" on the plotter to hang on my wall.

The print would probably be somewhere around 3 feet by 5 feet.  Please suggest anything you think looks cool.  I like that WE logo, but I also like the looks of the 6V6 datasheet below.  Are there any manuals with interesting diagrams you can think of? 

David B Bliss
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Reply #1 on: July 26, 2013, 04:50:34 AM
Why not do a collage of a dozen different data sheets?

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Adam


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Reply #2 on: July 26, 2013, 05:39:28 AM
Why not a girl instead?

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Reply #3 on: July 26, 2013, 06:25:05 AM
Quote from: xcortes on July 26, 2013, 05:39:28 AM
Why not a girl instead?

Ummmmmm.......because it's a workplace and we don't live in the 50s anymore?  ::)


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Reply #4 on: July 26, 2013, 06:52:18 AM
3 ft by 5 ft is huge! Are you looking for multiple smaller pieces or one large one?

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Reply #5 on: July 26, 2013, 08:21:31 AM
I'm looking for something that I can blow up between 2x3 feet and 3x5 feet.

I went ahead an printed the 6V6 datasheet at lunch.  But I'm still open to something cooler.  I think I will look in some of the old engineering text books.

David B Bliss
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Reply #6 on: July 26, 2013, 08:50:45 AM
How about the drawings from Lee de Forest's patent, 879532?

http://www.google.com/patents/US879532?printsec=drawing#v=onepage&q&f=false

-david

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Reply #7 on: July 26, 2013, 09:38:15 AM
How about a large version of your schematic from the 6V6 competition or your winning entry in the linestage competition.

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Reply #8 on: July 26, 2013, 09:43:19 AM
  When I purchased some tubes fro VTS, Vintage Tube Services in Michigan, a bunch of literature came with them. Really cool stuff about the beginnings of different companies. And at the website, there is even more if you were so inclined to print it out.


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Reply #9 on: July 26, 2013, 11:23:00 AM
It's a neat idea. There's a number of people out there doing patent artwork:
http://www.patentsasart.com/
http://www.patentartwork.com/
http://fineartamerica.com/art/all/patent/all

Stuff like old computers, camera lenses and the like. You might be able to find something cool like the Tesla's patents in the late 1800s or an old radio

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