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Evolution of Engineering: From Craft to Industry

Classical engineering involved individual artisans crafting unique products in workshops, while contemporary engineering emerged with the Industrial Revolution when production shifted to machines, specialization of labor, and mass production of standardized goods. This allowed for faster and increased production but had drawbacks like artisans losing their businesses and long work days for employees. Overall, the changes fueled development and innovation to work towards improving the world, though each era had its own challenges.

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Evolution of Engineering: From Craft to Industry

Classical engineering involved individual artisans crafting unique products in workshops, while contemporary engineering emerged with the Industrial Revolution when production shifted to machines, specialization of labor, and mass production of standardized goods. This allowed for faster and increased production but had drawbacks like artisans losing their businesses and long work days for employees. Overall, the changes fueled development and innovation to work towards improving the world, though each era had its own challenges.

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Classical engineering

and
Contemporary engineering
Until century XVIII was craft workshop
who produced all the products.

• The artisans had the


control of production in
workshops, so you went
there and you had your
shoes to unique measure,
nobody else had the same
shoes, and clothes, and
jewelry.
An artisan made a product and knew
perfectly it
• That´s was a time with pros and
against because the process was
slow and maybe was messy and
don´t have records, because in the
actually we don´t have that records
to compare the productive system.
• But the Industrial revolution appeared and with it the
steam machine and other system of production that
become in the boom, in the novelty.
• The new process changed the work hand to machines The process
and allowed the science make changes.
became a
• An operation was performed by the same operator faster
many times and the specialization appear, they have
specialist in a operation not in a product like the process than
artisans. the artisan.
The sales of products increased and the
time to wait one product was less to a
production in serie.
• This time had pros and against • All this changes give us
because the artisans broke her development and let us a legate that
business, the works days were long turn of three hundred and sixty
and the utilities belonged to a few degrees and we had a lot of
persons. innovation because that people had
a vision to be a better world but
there is so much to do, every time
had their troubles and their own
solutions.
Once they asked
Helen Keller if
there was anything
worse than being
blind. She
answered:
"Yes, to have
sight but not
vision"

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