Motors Big and Small (1971) [video]

Well, that's delayed me by 20 minutes! I'm not sure whether it's the content (I knew some but not all of that), the presentation style (I've always liked the use of analogy in teaching), or mere nostalgia that made it so engaging, but I found it impossible to stop watching that, and now I want to know more - particularly to see if those developments were applied to the passenger carrying vehicles of today.

I wonder if a video made today would be as straightforward in presentation, and also how it would look to a 45 year old in 2062? (coincidentally this was made in the year of my birth)

> "A good engineer knows when to use an analogy, and where it breaks down"

If you learn nothing else, learn this.

I listened to a conversation where a senior person was explaining something with an analogy. The junior person kept having problems with the edges of the analogy, where it breaks down, and the senior person just kept trying to explain the analogy.

Analogies, parables, shortcuts all have breakdown points, you have to know them, or they will bite you.

Holy hell, that's one good piece of video. Full of content and no fluff. I love the presentation style.

Anyone know of more videos like this one?

Huh. His obituary says he retired from IC in 1986, but I _distinctly_ recall him giving an electric motors course in my first year in 1994! I'm doubting my own memory now, but have vivid recollections of a classmate talking about the patents he had, and his ideas for launching to space using a maglev track up the side of a mountain.

"Of course... you can have a lot of fun with this..."

:-D