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What Means Most To An Engineer?

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What means the most to an engineer? That's the question posed by this ad for (a now defunct company) RCA. Apparently, keeping their engineers happy did not prevent the demise of the company. Link


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Having a mistress and a wife. That way the wife thinks he is with the mistress. The mistress thinks he is with the wife. While he is at work.
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The tool and die industry still hasn't recovered from the recession, and most engineers I know have taken up construction work because it's all that's available.
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RCA would take a carefully engineered prototype TV fresh from the engineers and proceed to cut components out of it. If the TV still worked without the component then that component was left out of the final design. The resulting TV sort of worked.
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As an Engineer, I can tell you that the number one thing we value is management that's willing to concede that they don't know as much as we do and who won't presume to mutilate projects through their ignorance.

Too often fidgety management seems to feel like they ought to be *doing* something. "Helping", in their minds. Don't. We got it. That one *little* thing you want to change for no reason beyond whimsy? It's not little when I have to redo the models and the drawings and lag the machine shop who just got done doing the tooling. And that's not even considering how many other issues your *little* addition is creating inadvertently that now have to be addressed. So, while I know it bruises your already ropey ego, shut up, go away, and let me do my job. Don't you have a report to file or something?
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Well, see; You turn the handle up there and it turns this handle here, and the other handle, uh... No, that's the one you hold there and it... Wait, give me a hand here. You hold that while I... Hey, what's that adjusting thing there? Go ahead and try it... Doh! Now you've messed it up, see? It'll never work now!

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Down on the farm toothpaste was ordered via the Sears Catalog, and was a luxury item. Back when people brushed their teeth once a week whether they needed it or not, this was also sold in the catalog as a toothpaste tube squeezer so you could get every last drip.

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When television was first invented, lazy people were begging for a way to change the channel when they didn't have kids around to do it for them. Early developers considered the use of multiple connecting handles the best way to keep the television controller functional in different seating situations.

Unfortunately, the lazy culture of the time found these controllers too complicated to master, and decided to just keep the children home from school and available to turn the set on and off or change the channel for them. This is why most adults in this country can barely read or write or think for themselves.

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It's ironic that should show up here. It was designed for the Writer's Workshop of Ashville, NC. It was used in a class as the McGuffin for a story to be made up on the spot, and thus is known as a "hack saw."

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This is a Japanese torpedo winder from WW2. You know when those torpedos are shot in all the war movies? THey never how you scenes of the sailors laboriously winding up the little propellers. The US navy were the first to have electric torpedo winders, although early in the war they malfunctioned and wound them the wrong way so they ran backwards and sometimes hit our own subs. Today's submarines come with pre-wound torpedoes.

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It's a handlizer, produced by DARPA in 1979 as inspired by the writings of Dr. Seuss. It's three levers that, when turned or pulled, simply move another lever.

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