Part Of My Work History
Completed and launched in 1983. 2 V-12 71 engines, 2 6-71 hydraulic engines and 2 6 cyl Allis Chalmers Generators. All of the power rests in the rear of the vessel in a pair of pods. 19-miles...
Forum Discussion
SaltiDawg wrote:
It has been suggested that our modern nuclear submarines are competitors for most complex machines in the world.
Well yeah, there's a lot of piping and wiring and integrated circuits and control rods and maybe a lot of stainless steel and maybe plenty of blast-formed titanium components ... inside an N-Sub.
But don't let the compact size of "common everyday" electronic gizmos fool you with respect to what's going on inside and what it took to make it happen. For instance, read up on what scientists and engineers went through to learn how humans perceive color in nature and then what they had to do in order to make that appear on a screen in everyone's home after synchronous-modulating a high frequency RF carrier wave blasted everywhere over tha air waves. What is actually going on at the "nuts-and-bolts level" to bring color television into our home boggles the mind ... and we live with it every day and pay no attention to it's complexity.
What I would call the most complex machine in the world is that mammoth beam accelerator built, and being used by, scientists in Europe to nail down the so-called God Particle. THAT is complexity well over-the-top.
