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- From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: Measurement & Precision
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.190229.19122@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov10.121329.7384@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:02:29 GMT
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- dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
-
- : PS. BTW, it would be an interesting to put 5 or 6
- : scientists/engineers on a desert island (rich in ores) with the goal
- : of producing a 5um accuracy stepper motor from stratch. They are
- : allowed any text books they like and we feed them well, so they can
- : work on it full time.
- :
- : It would be interesting to see if they could do it within their life time.
-
- Of course they couldn't. It takes a large and prosperous society to
- support the hundreds of specialized skills necessary for the task you
- describe. In order to accomplish what you ask you would need
- thousands of well fed people including miners, mining engineers,
- metalurgists, carpenters, smelters, machinists, electrical and
- mechanical engineers and technicians, potters, glass blowers,
- chemists, smiths, etc, etc, and (god forbid) probably some managers.
- You would also need a wide range of raw materials in addition to
- metalic ores.
-
- P.S. Unless you are talking about a linear stepper motor (which I
- have never heard of) it is meaningless to specify the accuracy of a
- stepper motor in anything other than angular units.
-
- P.P.S. How about we put Derek on a desert island with the goal of
- producing something that makes sense. It would be interesting to see
- if he could do it within his lifetime.
-
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