The universal male-female symbols were conceived in 1974 by the design firm Cook & Shanosky Associates, in collaboration with the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Transportation Department, as two of a number of standard symbols to be used in the public realm.
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The universal male-female symbols were conceived in 1974 by the design firm Cook & AMP; Shanosky Associates, in collaboration with the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Transportation Department, as two of a number of standard symbols to be used in the public realm.
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Thus all labels and all standard symbols ( such as a dot for a town ) can be superimposed on a map, and the map image itself needs to show only the curves for coasts, rivers, boundaries, roads, railways, etc ., possibly with areas filled with colors.
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The international standard symbol for inch is "'in "'( see ISO 31-1, Annex A ) but traditionally the inch is denoted by a dyadic fractions with odd number numerators; for example, would be written as & Prime; and not as 2.375 & Prime; nor as & Prime;.
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As the tourist explosion took place in the 1960s, a number of researchers were looking for new standard symbols to be used at roads, stations, airports, etc . Bliss then adopted the name " Blissymbolics " in order that no researcher could plagiarize his system of symbols.
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The list given in ISO 31-8 : 1992 was quoted from the 1998 IUPAC " Green Book " Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry and adds in some cases in parentheses the Latin name for information, where the standard symbol has no relation to the English name of the element.
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Similarly, mere geometric shapes do not qualify for copyright protection . " [ I ] it is not possible to copyright common geometric figures or shapes such as the hexagon or the ellipse, a standard symbol such as an arrow or a five-pointed star . " " See " the Copyright Office's Compendium of copyright registration standards, Section 503.02 ( a ).
