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Enterprise · 19. Lipanj 2025. u 17:43

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Historic engineering was hard work
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I remember getting blisters on my fingers from using a mechanical calculating machine in the 1960s. Is that what you mean?

Bikermike · 19. Lipanj 2025. u 18:41

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I remember getting blisters on my fingers from using a mechanical calculating machine in the 1960s. Is that what you mean?
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I now have visions of a whole new field of re-enactment! See the amazing historical engineers perform calculations of els/peck with quill pens on parchment!

21B · 19. Lipanj 2025. u 21:12

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I would agree that there are tools that make certain aspects of the job easier, but I would go further and say that because of those tools an engineer in the 21st century is expected to do more of the individual tasks. Your drawing office might only be a quarter of the size, but those engineers need to do the work of the missing 75%, regardless of the discipline. Having a smaller workforce can often mean that you remove the luxury of having teams of engineers that can devote themselves to getting good at one thing. FEA allows you to automate certain parts of structural analysis, but the level of detail required is magnitudes higher than 50/60 years ago when you would have just over engineered the part to be sure of it. In my corner of engineering, FEA is often a tool you use to prove you can take more mass out of a structure.

The most difficult part of my job? Regulation. I'm not against it, I genuinely believe that we have a good health and safety culture and I'm happy to work in an environment where 99.9999999999999999...% of the workforce go home every day. Designing a machine is the easy part. Designing it in such a way it will get regulatory approval is difficult. Many of the rules and regulations a 21st century steam engine (or any machine) has to meet just did not exist 100 years ago.

Despite the rumours, I've never met a modern engineer in my line of work that could not do a paper drawing. I've not met anyone who has come through college or university and not done some form of training in it. To put it another way, it's not like you can click one button and have a PC magically populate a full engineering drawing for you.

Historic engineering was hard work, modern engineering is hard work, both for different and the same reasons.
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Totally agree. Would also add that 20year daughter who actually studies Law, but is fairly practical demonstrated that the other day by extracting the engine and gearbox from the Austin 7, splitting the gearbox off, and removing the clutch in about 2 hours.
The engineers we employ use all the modern tools, but are quite capable of driving a manual lathe or a milling machine when necessary. And hand drawing stuff is essential skill, a prerequisite for being a decent CAD engineer. I suspect we are doing with 20 engineers what 200 would have struggled to do 30 years ago.

blink bonny · 20. Lipanj 2025. u 00:04

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