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> We don't need huge arrays of buttons like that anymore. I wouldn't be too sure about that. Here's the bridge of a modern cruise ship (Quantum Of The Seas):
by qayxc 5y ago
> We don't need huge arrays of buttons like that anymore.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Here's the bridge of a modern cruise ship (Quantum Of The Seas):
https://safety4sea.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Wartsila-image-Bridge_Quatum_of_the_Seas.jpg https://safety4sea.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Wartsila-i...
Quite a few buttons; that keyboard in the front right alone has at least 104 keys.
Another image of rows of buttons inside the control room of a nuclear submarine:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/21/13/306D657A00000578-0-image-a-37_1453383949723.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/21/13/306D657A000005...
If anything, the number of buttons has gone up, not down over the course of the last century.
Airplane cockpit 100 years ago:
https://cdn.virily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4F5A8778_M.jpg https://cdn.virily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4F5A8778_M...
Airplane cockpit today:
https://airbus-h.assetsadobe2.com/is/image/content/dam/products-and-solutions/commercial-aircraft/cabin-and-cargo/Simu_cockpit_A350XWB.jpg?wid=1000 https://airbus-h.assetsadobe2.com/is/image/content/dam/produ...
Granted half of the buttons are for redundancy, that's still quite a lot of buttons.
- Animats 5y agoFor aircraft, Peak Button was reached at the end of the large propeller aircraft era. Here's the B-36 flight engineer's station. [1] The B-36 had 6 propellers and 4 jet engines. Most of those controls are for engine management of the reciprocating engines. [1] http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/cockpits/CW_tour/CW-7.html http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/cockpits/CW_tour/CW-7.html