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How many engineers? at Commonsense Design

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Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design. An elegant hydraulic calculator. Definitely a good idea! January 15, 2015. See the mechanic working on my Renault Clio. Do you know what he’s doing? Looks like he’s trying to squeeze his arm into a tiny space between some metal beams in the engine compartment frame. Why is he doing that? Because he wants to replace a burned out light bulb in the headlamp assembly. Why, what’s the problem? Here is the problem:. How many design engineers does it take.

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A wonderful idea for defusing a child’s fear at Commonsense Design

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Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design. Another triumph of improvisation! A wonderful idea for defusing a child’s fear. May 28, 2015. I was sitting in the lobby of the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem,. And I noticed on the chair next to me a small booklet someone had discarded there. An idle look turned to admiration as I examined it and realized what it was. The cover reads “ EEG test – the Institute for Neurological Diagnosis. Be Sociable, Share! Feed for this Entry. Now available for Kindle!

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Category Archive for ‘Uncategorized’ at Commonsense Design

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Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design. Archive for the 'Uncategorized' Category. Cornell’s Calculator in a Book. April 29, 2016. Some of the most fascinating items in my History of Computing collection. Are the one-of-a-kind, undocumented ones. The latest such addition to the collection is a calculator hidden in a book-like case, that has no mention anywhere that I could find. This is Charles Cornell’s F.24 aerial photography planning calculator,. January 23, 2016. So here, for your enjoyment,.

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Definitely a good idea! at Commonsense Design

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Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design. Another triumph of improvisation! Definitely a good idea! February 25, 2015. Here is a row of anchors, which I photographed in Greenwich in the UK. You’ll note the one in the foreground has a single fluke (as the pointy ends of an anchor are called). The sign says this anchor is from around 1820. So why would they produce an anchor with only one fluke,. When most of them have two? For a very good reason. Be Sociable, Share! Feed for this Entry.

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An elegant hydraulic calculator at Commonsense Design

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Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design. Form and Materials: swords of yesteryear. An elegant hydraulic calculator. November 14, 2014. Robert Owen Wynne-Roberts,. MICE (Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers), FRSI (Fellow of the Royal Sanitary Institute), was a talented civil engineer. He passed away in 1935, but at least one result of his engineering talent abides: the Wynne-Roberts hydraulic calculator, a specialty circular slide rule for computing flow in water pipes and sewers.

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Form and Materials: swords of yesteryear at Commonsense Design

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Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design. A truly uncool armrest design. An elegant hydraulic calculator. Form and Materials: swords of yesteryear. November 7, 2014. Form follows function;. But often both must follow the available materials. Consider the image that comes to mind. At a statement like. The great king raised his mighty sword to smite his enemies. You imagine a sword structured something like this:. Photo courtesy Søren Niedziella, shared on flickr. Well, how about this. We’re talking ...

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Another triumph of improvisation! at Commonsense Design

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Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design. Definitely a good idea! A wonderful idea for defusing a child’s fear. Another triumph of improvisation! March 24, 2015. And Odds and Ends. Cloning a Vibroplex bug. Where I describe the venerable Vibroplex semi-automatic telegraph key – and the improvised clone I made as a young radio amateur. Be Sociable, Share! Responses to “Another triumph of improvisation! Feed for this Entry. Will not be published) (required). Definitely a good idea!

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Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design. Commonsense Design – the discipline. 8211; is one passion of Nathan Zeldes (me). Applied physicist by education, technologist by vocation, and maker of things (hardware, software, and “classic” DIY) by avocation. For some of my other passions, check my web site, http:/ www.nathanzeldes.com. Which will show you what I do for a living, and my hobby site here. Commonsense Design – the blog. To make contact with me. Which I welcome you to do, use this page.

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Category Archive for ‘Odds and Ends’ at Commonsense Design

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Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design. Archive for the 'Odds and Ends' Category. January 23, 2016. Say “Alice in wonderland”, and the image that comes to mind. The lead character’s namesake, who was not blonde in the least. And then there is a different Alice altogether,. So here, for your enjoyment,. Are some comparisons of the Carroll and Tenniel realizations of some scenes in the book:. As we can see, Tenniel was definitely a more capable illustrator;. Another triumph of improvisation! God re...