[rp-ml] facebook Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing Group (invitation)

Dear rp-ml members,

To help our cooperation (and to see each others face), I recently
established a group on facebook.com, named as Rapid Prototyping &
Manufacturing

You can visit the group and become a member by following the link below;
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18095536694

Bu the way, I have just received high resolution POPULAR SCIENCE, August
1955 magazine scans from Grayson Sigler and composed this image;
http://www.turkcadcam.net/teknomizah/images/first-nc-mit-big.jpg

In an electronic lab at MIT, engineers now are Teaching Power Tools to Run
Themselves
POPULAR SCIENCE, August 1955

I hope you will all like it...

Regards
 
Erkut Negis
Mech. Engr.

http://www.MfgTR.com
Marketplace for Manufacturing in Turkey

Synergy Publishing and Consulting Inc.
Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.TurkCADCAM.net

Towards Perfection In Manufacturing: Autofabrication Technologies:
http://www.turkcadcam.net/rapor/autofab

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi] On Behalf
Of Erkut Negis
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:13 AM
To: rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi
Subject: [rp-ml] An interesting historic article about the first NC milling
machine > POPULAR SCIENCE, August 1955
Importance: High

Dear all,

Recently I've found an interesting article about the first NC machine made
at MIT labs in 1955;

In an electronic lab at MIT, engineers now are Teaching Power Tools to Run
Themselves
By Hartley E. Howe
POPULAR SCIENCE, August 1955
Pages, 106, 107, 108, 109, 222

The pictures given below shows first 4 pages of the article;
http://www.turkcadcam.net/rapor/CADCAM-tarihcesi/MITcnc1.jpg
http://www.turkcadcam.net/rapor/CADCAM-tarihcesi/MITcnc2.jpg

The hand made drawings showing how the machine is programmed and run using
punched tapes (on an TX-0 computer) are very funny?.. :)

It is interesting that in these old days the author makes very accurate
estimations about the future of the technology. May be he forget to mention
about additive fabrication technologies however the main principle behind
these two are similar?..

I hope you will all enjoy the article.

By the way, I want to thank to Grayson Sigler, who put these unique scans to
his forum pages;
http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24723

Note: I do not have the rest of the article yet. If there is a member in
this group who can supply this, I'll appreciate much...

Regards
 
Erkut Negis
Received on Fri May 23 14:33:04 2008