Design
Architecture
and other plans
T.
Buckingham Thomas physics Oberlin WOBC Richwood Tom Thomas Chyron
Infinit Pittsburgh
Since
high school, for my own amusement I've drawn pencil sketches of
plans, playing with the challenge of working out the geometry. Here
are some examples, plus related articles.
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The Pennsylvania Canal paralleled Pennsylvania rivers nearly two centuries ago. |
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A nearby "Bridge Street" must mark the location of a long-lost low bridge over the Pennsylvania Canal. |
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From my present domicile it would have required 8½ hours by canal boat to reach this town on the Kiskiminetas. |
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Steam-powered stagecoaches cruised English roads in 1831 until opponents legislated against them. |
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Plain Italianate Victorian houses abound near my old Ohio home. |
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Local inventor drives newfangled car to Columbus looking for investors, finds none, gives up. I get one of his stock certificates. |
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1960 |
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The Thomas family visits a Cinerama movie theater. |
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I build models of buildings with bricks, logs, girders, etc. |
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Playing fields for football, track, etc., plus a downhill racer. |
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1970 |
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Fitting a TV studio into a low-ceilinged room. |
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When is an analog display like a fence? |
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Auditoriums that will never be built. |
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1980 |
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More ideas, including spirals, mirror effects, and movable walls and floors that quickly convert bedrooms into extra living space. |
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Street plans for imaginary cities. |
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If WOBC were all-news, how would I organize it? |
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Using BASIC to make a tiny computer useful for baseball and boxing telecasts. |
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The 1988 design for a one-handed computer keyboard. |
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1990 |
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An imagined visit to a museum of models on widely different scales, from atoms to galaxies. |
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Could tinted lenses help colorblind people? And what about the dogs? |
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2000 |
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On my high-definition set, I can choose to display the picture from any of three smaller monitors. |
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Why must we dash across a busy "street" between mall stores and their parking spaces? |
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A proposal for a standard studio layout for teleconferences. |
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Hooking up two simple audio/video switches to make a multipurpose routing switcher. |
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How to fix cars and correspondents that don't sound off when we expect them to. |
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Don't flip a coin; use this spreadsheet to perform quantitative analysis of the alternatives. |
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Why can't we use computers to shift gears and print out prescriptions? |
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The architecture of a church in my neighborhood reminds me of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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2010 |
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Traffic circles, or roundabouts, include an oval "racetrack" in downtown Rochester, PA. |
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Seeking a more practical hot dog bun. |
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In Buffalo, I visit Frank Lloyd Wright's late lamented Larkin Building and the Darwin Martin House. Many pictures. |
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