NASA Pumpkin Carving Contest

[MIKE]

NASA Pumpkin Carving Contest- 2013

[JC004]

Sweet.  I ended up selling jack-o'-lanterns one year because I got a bunch of compliments on what I did and people asked to buy some.  Now that I see this, I realize that I should have done that this year for some cash.

I like that device that the one group is using to copy the skull.  It's like Thomas Jefferson's photocopier (polygraph).

[SarDragon]

Sweet.  I ended up selling jack-o'-lanterns one year because I got a bunch of compliments on what I did and people asked to buy some.  Now that I see this, I realize that I should have done that this year for some cash.

I like that device that the one group is using to copy the skull.  It's like Thomas Jefferson's photocopier (polygraph pantograph).

FTFY.

[JC004]

Sweet.  I ended up selling jack-o'-lanterns one year because I got a bunch of compliments on what I did and people asked to buy some.  Now that I see this, I realize that I should have done that this year for some cash.

I like that device that the one group is using to copy the skull.  It's like Thomas Jefferson's photocopier (polygraph pantograph).

FTFY.

Keep it.  http://www.monticello.org/site/house-and-gardens/polygraph

[Luis R. Ramos]

I guess you did not stop to read the footnotes to what you copied. Footnote number 3 reads:

Confusion often arises because of the use of the term "polygraph," which is now used for a lie-detecting device. Both John Isaac Hawkins and Jefferson himself referred to Hawkins' copying device as a "polygraph," although it is what we would now call a "pantograph." According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the modern usage of the word "polygraph" (i.e. lie detector) did not come about until 1871. Before that, and even after that for some years, "polygraph" was used to refer to devices like Jefferson's, that could produce several copies of the same document at the same time. The word "pantograph" was already being used as early as the seventeenth century, but it was used chiefly amongst the scientific community, referring to very specialized instruments for reducing or enlarging mathematical diagrams.

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