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The earliest "pipeline" example I can find is the portsmouth block mills [1] implemented by Marc Brunel[2]/Henry Maudslay[3] around 1802 [1] https://en.wikiped
by cogman10 2y ago
The earliest "pipeline" example I can find is the portsmouth block mills [1] implemented by Marc Brunel[2]/Henry Maudslay[3] around 1802
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Block_Mills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Block_Mills
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Isambard_Brunel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Isambard_Brunel
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Maudslay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Maudslay
- bjourne 2y agoBefore that you had bucket brigades.
- adrian_b 2y agoWikipedia gives another much more ancient example of a "pipeline", the Venetian Arsenal, which had a progressive assembly line for ships, which had a throughput that could be greater than of one ship per day, and which has been built in the 12th century.