[rescue] IBM cosmograph

[Francois Dion]

I have Brinton's book from 1939 (and a repro of his 1914 book) in my hand,
it's a classic in information visualization. I'm curious though, how would
you make one?

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Francois Dion wrote:
>
> In the 30s IBM sold a kit to make photo ready relationship diagrams or
>> input/ouput charts, called the cosmograph (think sankey diagram).
>>
>> I was wondering if someone on this list had ever seen one in person. Or
>> more references in IBM's publications (beside the 1934 sales catalog
>> mentioned in the above)?
>>
>
> I've never seen one, but it looks like it'd be relatively easy to build:
>
>    https://archive.org/details/graphicpresentat00brinrich
>    (page 78)
>
> --
> Jonathan Patschke
> Austin, TX
> USA
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