by KeithTas » Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:52 am
Trapper John wrote:It is a thing of beauty, Keith and no mistake.
I just wonder though, is it more a feat of engineering with today's modern tools and equipment than say, an old Swiss watchmaker sitting in room with just files, pliers and tweezers making every component by hand?
Well if you visit the Maritime Museum at Greenwich the clocks, chronometers and instruments are simply mind blowing there is not doubt, people like John Harrison were geniuses. I also saw the Tutenkamon exhibition in Melbourne some time ago and the engraving could have been done by a laser cutter (fuck here we go again).
I think that we do tend to view the old and the new with rose coloured glasses of sorts, after all it should be remembered that even though much todays modern manufacturing techniques is mechanical these machines we built by humans, so were the machines that built the machines that built the machines.
[quote="Trapper John"]It is a thing of beauty, Keith and no mistake.
I just wonder though, is it more a feat of engineering with today's modern tools and equipment than say, an old Swiss watchmaker sitting in room with just files, pliers and tweezers making every component by hand?[/quote]
Well if you visit the Maritime Museum at Greenwich the clocks, chronometers and instruments are simply mind blowing there is not doubt, people like John Harrison were geniuses. I also saw the Tutenkamon exhibition in Melbourne some time ago and the engraving could have been done by a laser cutter (fuck here we go again).
I think that we do tend to view the old and the new with rose coloured glasses of sorts, after all it should be remembered that even though much todays modern manufacturing techniques is mechanical these machines we built by humans, so were the machines that built the machines that built the machines.
