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Olde Tymie Stuff

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
A small saw mill in my town still works with the mechanics that was created for a steam engine though they switched out the steam engine for an electric motor.
Old sugar mills were totally self efficient with regard to fuel. Pollution, not so much.
 

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
What I don't understand is: we are supposedly more advanced now, with better computers, more powerful machines and better informed. Why is it that it now takes decades what could be finished in months 70 years ago?

Bureaucrats.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
What I don't understand is: we are supposedly more advanced now, with better computers, more powerful machines and better informed. Why is it that it now takes decades what could be finished in months 70 years ago?
I don't think things were all that fast back then.
Things change....
- Modern highways are much more complex, eg, foundations.
- Regulatory hurdles have increased.
- Bridges are more common.
 
Was going through some childhood pics today and discovered these

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