The main things I'm interested in here are the genealogical nature of this kind of drawing (copy of a copy of a copy of a speculative idea, etc.) and...
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Three visions of the same (not quite right) H-bomb design idea. Left to right: Life magazine, 1955; translated Soviet publication, 1959; World Book Encyclopedia, circa mid-to-late 1970s. (One of my summer goals is to resurrect my old research project on "Drawing the bomb")pic.twitter.com/BkZhleqfeT
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the different graphical conventions used, and how they map to kinds of actors and statements about knowledge/power (e.g. the pseudo-3D, the ones that try to look like "blueprints," the ones that render it as a sequence of images versus the ones that fix it as a single one).
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(And I think, for the first time, I've figured out to fix the main barrier to publication, which is the fact that it's hard to show these things without running into an endless sequence of trying to track down copyright holders, etc.)
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