System
Ages
Technical drawing
Construction
Vocab
100
An interacting group of items forming a unified whole
What is a system
100
People lived off the land. Many tools and discoveries had to do with growing crops. This era lasted until the 1770s.
What is the agricultural age
100
A heavy solid line used on a drawing to represent the outline of an object
What is an object line
100
In manufacturing, a working model of a proposed product
What is a prototype
100
Use of technology to mass produce things people want or need
What is manufacturing
200
The action part of a system where resources are combined to produce an output in response to a command input
What is a process
200
Society moved to a focus on machines, factories and industry.
What is the industrial age
200
Light line extending between views of a 2D drawing used to align dimensions
What is a projection line
200
Products designed to have an enjoyable appearance
What is aesthetics
200
The creating of a product or introduction of a process for the first time
What is an invention
300
A system consisting of an input, process, and output that cannot adjust to changing conditions
What is an open loop system
300
People from the 1950s through today in which inventions are based on electronics and computers
What is the informational age
300
Heavy unconnected line that represents an edge that is not directly visible
What is a hidden line
300
How comfortable something is to use
What is ergonomics
300
Improves on or makes a significant contribution to an existing product, process or service
What is an innovation
400
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
Bow and arrow, aquaduct
What are the inventions from the agricultural age
400
Drawing representing a three dimensions using 3 different views, front, top, and right side
What is an orthographic drawing
400
Technology related to the design and building of structures
What is construction
400
Series of work stations at which individual steps in the assembly of a product are carried out as the product is moved along
What is an assembly line
500
What a system produces/ the end result
What is an output
500
Computers, cell phones, tablets
What are the inventions from the informational age
500
A pictorial drawing that shows three sides of an object that has been rotated thirty degrees
What is an isometric drawing
500
Made to specifications that ensures that they are nearly so identical that they will fit into any assembly of the structure
What are interchangable parts
500
Drawing of an object that is not true size but that is the correct propositions
What is a scale drawing