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Machines and SignsThe First Steps

Machines and Signs: The First Steps [Prehistoric man was the first “designer”: to kill an animal, he needed a branch of a tree. In this operation, the abovementioned prehistoric man searched for a branch with a form useful for the necessary function (in the modern “methodic design” such an operation is called “design for function”, i.e. to realize a given object with a configuration suitable to perform the wanted function), with a useful diameter (not too little for strength requirements and not too big for need for gripping). In the choice of the dimension, our ancestor realized an optimization process, without the knowledge, of course, of the definition of “optimization”! The branch, also, had to be easy to find: our ancestor solved a problem of “design for manufacturing” (such an operation, in the modern “methodic design” is intended as the realization of an object with a configuration suitable to be realized easily and economically). A big problem in the development of an industrial product is to realize such a product with a configuration able to perform a wanted function and at the same time easy to be manufactured. Our ancestor had to solve this problem!] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Machines and SignsThe First Steps

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 17)
Rovida, Edoardo
Machines and Signs — Sep 9, 2012
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
ISBN
978-94-007-5406-5
Pages
19 –30
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-5407-2_3
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Abstract

[Prehistoric man was the first “designer”: to kill an animal, he needed a branch of a tree. In this operation, the abovementioned prehistoric man searched for a branch with a form useful for the necessary function (in the modern “methodic design” such an operation is called “design for function”, i.e. to realize a given object with a configuration suitable to perform the wanted function), with a useful diameter (not too little for strength requirements and not too big for need for gripping). In the choice of the dimension, our ancestor realized an optimization process, without the knowledge, of course, of the definition of “optimization”! The branch, also, had to be easy to find: our ancestor solved a problem of “design for manufacturing” (such an operation, in the modern “methodic design” is intended as the realization of an object with a configuration suitable to be realized easily and economically). A big problem in the development of an industrial product is to realize such a product with a configuration able to perform a wanted function and at the same time easy to be manufactured. Our ancestor had to solve this problem!]

Published: Sep 9, 2012

Keywords: Road Sign; Technical Object; Perpetual Motion; Ancient Representation; Master Builder

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