4 ms·
> Recently I dug teeny bit into pocket watches, and then wrist watches, which turnst out were a thing way longer than I imagined! Weren't these handcrafted by
by merely-unlikely 4y ago
> Recently I dug teeny bit into pocket watches, and then wrist watches, which turnst out were a thing way longer than I imagined!
Weren't these handcrafted by highly skilled and highly paid specialists for a long, long time. In contrast to more modern mass production.
- NikolaNovak 4y agoYes; so I think that's where scope or intent of statement may come in. I think: * We were able to craft, manually, things much more precisely for much longer than some of us thought * We were able to design/engineer/mass-manufacture precise things for far shorter than many of us thought
- jandrese 4y agoWhat we have with CAD and robot aided assembly is making precision affordable. Which is probably a good reason the early steam engines didn't take off. You could build something in the lab, but there was no way to affordably mass produce a usefully efficient version.