Pantograph (disambiguation)

A pantograph is a mechanical connected linkage of a writing instrument, like a pen, such that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen.

Pantograph may also refer to:

  • Pantograph (lighting suspension), an overhead lighting system used in television and photography
  • Pantograph punch, a type of keypunch used in early data processing machines
  • Pantograph (rail), a device that collects electric current from overhead lines for electric trains or trams
  • Pantographia, a 1799 work on writing systems and typography by Edmund Fry
  • Pantographic knife, a folding knife whose blade is opened by a unique scissors method
  • Delay differential equation, also known as a “pantograph equation”
  • Void pantograph, a method of security printing aimed at foiling photographic duplication

See also

  • The Pantagraph, a daily newspaper that serves Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, United States
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