Nuts and Bolts

[VicParticipant @vic]

A couple of interesting links.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1058094

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17581206.2024.2391984#d1e154

 

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

What about, I don’t click on random links

[FulmenParticipant @fulmen]

Don’t worry, it’s nothing bad. Just porn.

[Fulmen]

On Fulmen Said:

Don’t worry, it’s nothing bad. Just porn.

I’m told you can get a virus from certain porn.😆

[FulmenParticipant @fulmen]

Sure, but what are we to do? Stop watching it? That’s crazy talk and you know it.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Thank you for these, Vic.

 

I copied and pasted the links, and they reveal results or research giving the fascinating and thought-provoking history of the Whitworth thread, how it was devised (by averaging many factories’ practices) and the value of the standards long before official adoption, along with careful batch-production of the building frame components, in erecting the Crystal Palace in a remarkably short time.

The building was originally made to hold the Great Exhibition of the very latest advances in engineering; attended by huge numbers of people including those able to scrape together enough for the “Shilling Days”, and The Queen and Prince Consort. The royal couple seem to have been thoroughly modern people in their own time, with a fascination for the latest technical developments.

I can think of many people in our time who would do well to consider this quoted comment by one visitor, no less than Charles Babbage, the inventor of the “Difference Engine” mechanical computer:

‘Those who enjoy leisure can scarcely find a more interesting and instructive pursuit than the examination of the workshops of their own country, which contain within them a rich mine of knowledge, too generally neglected by the wealthier classes.’

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Ironically, most workshops today are in the backyards of the wealthier classes who enjoy leisure!

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