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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Fabrication (was fast track failures)
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:02:16 GMT
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- In <1993Jan4.202421.11388@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
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- >> 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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