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Re: American Inventor

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Originally Posted by Ryan Foley
After seeing the sand bag shovel, my dad said I should design a dump truck that does it automatically.
actually, thats not a bad idea. Im thinking more of something like a dumptruck that could spew out BIG sandbags, like a giant saugage machine, so you could fill the truck with sand using a highloader, and 'sandbag' 50 to 100 feet at a time with a sandbag that is 6 feet in diameter?

We learned from John Henry, a well desinged machine will outrun an army of humans anyday.

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I'm sure the shovel guy went through tons of revisions of his shovel to make it the most comfortable and ergonomic he possibly could. To me, that's still engineering...
I would not call that engineering. That is the difference between an engineer and a basement-inventor. The engineer took all those science and technology classes in college so he KNOWs what is possible, what has already been done, how materials will hold up under stress.

A good engineer can take a design concept and get the design correct with the first prototype. Thats engineering. All the design work happens with pencil and paper, or on a CAD system. Building a 100 prototypes until you get one right is tinkering.

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