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Which of the following mechanism is used to enlarge or reduce the size of a drawing ?

(a) Grasshopper mechanism

(b) Watt mechanism

(c) Pantograph

(d) none of the mentioned

The question was posed to me during a job interview.

My enquiry is from Straight Line Mechanism in chapter Mechanisms with Lower Pairs of Machine Kinematics

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The correct answer is (c) Pantograph

The best I can explain: A pantograph is an instrument used to reproduce to an enlarged or a reduced scale and as exactly as possible the path described by a given point.

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