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I don't have time to research and write a good comment right now, but metrology and tolerancing is super important to the modern bicycle. Look up Henry Leland
by csours 3y ago
I don't have time to research and write a good comment right now, but metrology and tolerancing is super important to the modern bicycle.
Look up Henry Leland and the progress made in metrology, and look at the time period he worked in.
How much variance can you have in a bike chain and still have a bike worth using?
I think that would make a VERY good interactive museum experience.
- photochemsyn 3y agoI think this one explains why the mass adoption of the bicycle took so long. Before the era of precision manufacturing, each mechanical device had to be hand-assembled by an expert machinist who fine-tuned crude parts into a working device - meaning there were no drop-in mass-produced replacement parts. This would make maintenance and construction impractically expensive.