ruminations about architecture and design
Friday, October 11, 2013
machine age
This is a deceptively simple piece of machinery. Some people would say it is only one part of a system of a more complex machine, but I think it has enough stand alone qualities to be placed on the same shelf as a Boeing airplane. I have no idea how it is put together. I have a conceptual knowledge of how it works, but if tasked to design and build something like it, I could spend a lifetime and not match it or improve on it.
And like all things metal made by the hand of humans, it will deteriorate and become rubbish with a marginal scrap value.
I can't justify the expense of this piece of machinery for my personal use, but I appreciate its quality.
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