A heavy solid line used on a drawing to represent the outline of an object.
What is an object line?
100
Use of technology to mass produce things people want or need.
What is manufacturing?
100
An interacting group of items forming a unified whole.
What is a system?
100
People lived off land. Many tools and discoveries had to do with growing crops. This era lasted in the 1700s.
What is the Agricultural Age?
100
The creation of a product or introduction of a process for the first time.
What is invention?
200
Light lines extending between views of a 2D drawing used to align dimensions.
What is a projection line?
200
How comfortable something is to use.
What is ergonomics?
200
A system that is part of another, larger system.
What is a subsystem?
200
Society moved to focus on machines, factories, and industry. Populations in North America, especially built large factories and large machines to do things people used to have to do by hand.
What is the Industrial Age?
200
Improves on or makes a significant contribution to an existing product, service, or process.
What is innovation.
300
Heavy unconnected lines that represent an edge that is not directly visible.
What is a hidden line?
300
Products designed to have an enjoyable appearance.
What is aesthetics?
300
The desired result of a system.
What is the input?
300
The period from the 1950s to today in which inventions are based on electricity.
What is the Information Age?
300
A system which can adjust to changing conditions, through the use of a feedback loop which monitors output.
What is a closed-loop system?
400
Representing a three dimensions object in 2 dimensions using three different views.
What is a orthographic drawing?
400
In manufacturing, a working model of a proposed product.
What is a prototype?
400
What a system actually produces/the end result.
What is the output?
400
The method of using our knowledge to solve practical problems. Solutions to these problems satisfy peoples wants and needs.
What is technology?
400
A system consisting of an input, process, and output that cannot respond to changing conditions.
What is an open-loop system?
500
Drawing of an object that is not true in size but that is in the correct proportions.
What is a scale drawing?
500
Parts made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type.
What are interchangeable parts?
500
The action part of a system where resources are combined to produce an output in response to a command input.
What is the process?
500
Technology related to the design and building of structures.
What is construction?
500
A series of work stations at which individual steps in the assembly of a product are carried out as the product moves along.