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Article #6996Re: Fabrication (was fast track failures)
From: Edward V. Wright
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 00:02
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 00:02
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In <1993Jan4.202421.11388@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes: >> In article <ewright.725666125@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward >V. Wright) writes: >> > >> Most engineering *is* paperwork, or workstation work today. Otherwise >> it's just tinkering on a wing and a prayer. You have to bend metal to >> *test* your engineering, but bending metal *isn't* engineering. It's >> fabrication done by tradesmen. Wait a minute, I never wrote that! That was Gary Coffman! >I think engineering must consider how something is to be made. The >most elegant design is useless if it can't be manufactured. >Knowledge of what can be made is obtained by bending metal, or >at least by interacting with those who do. Indeed, G. Harry Stine has an article on this very subject in the current Analog.
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