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Subject:Re: Famous tech. communicators in literature? From:Barb Miller <millerb -at- TCPLINK -dot- NREL -dot- GOV> Date:Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:23:21 MST
If someone ever invites me to a costume party, I'd like to go as a
famous, fictional technical communicator.
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I can think of a few journalists and ficiton writers in literature (the main
character in Misery, for example), but I can't think of any technical
communicator characters.
How about Leonardo DaVinci? He definitely was a technical illustrator.
Leonardo was an inventor on the side.
STC's Technical Communication ran a series on historical technical
communicators about 10+ years ago. Maybe some co-STCers may have more
details.
Barb Miller
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
millerb -at- tcplink -dot- nrel -dot- gov
