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Vortex Watt : tool making & toolmakers

click ►▼, links, and ••• — September 4, 2011, 1 pm Denver

 
 
News
23 Aug 11: From Strategy+Business ••• : "A Strategist’s Guide to Digital Fabrication" ••• — "Rapid advances in manufacturing technology point the way toward a decentralized, more customer-centric “maker” culture. Here are the changes to consider before this innovation takes hold."
"Notice that this covers not just 3-D printing but also small computer-run conventional fab techniques. Where's the economic advantage of having somebody push the button in China and shipping the product to the USA, as opposed to having somebody (e.g., the customer) push the button in the USA.  It's like having your xeroxing done in China. People are not yet thinking through the implications of this." —James C. Bennett, (see vortex Beowulf), 3 Sep 11
Magazines (print & online)
"Strategy+Business" •••
Books
James Watt, by Andrew Carnegie ••• — tells us as much about the character of Andrew Carnegie as about James Watt.
Thanks to the University of Rochester for their "Rochester History Resources" project •••
University of Rochester •••
University of Rochester online library of steam power •••
Henry Petroski — great books about engineers and engineering
Hoover's World ••• — Gary Hoover has created and makes use of a personal library of 50,000 volumes. His website reflects his interest in adventurers, entrepreneurs, and stories of imaginative and great enterprises. -leif
Glyphs
508 Makers — The Next Generation - a cartoon Ayn Rand would like
472 Learning with Fingers & Eyes - Walter P. Chrysler — for some, learning is not best done by reading
023 James Watt, by Andrew Carnegie — published 1905
470 Hoover's World, Enterprise & Entrepreneurship — a resource for explorers
464 Henry Ford & Thomas Edison: Differences of Mind — observed by Garet Garrett •••

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