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Industrial Age
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Drawing And Design
Vocabulary
Vocabulary #2
100
Products designed to have an enjoyable look.
What is aesthetics?
100
Time period in which all new inventions and ideas had to do with farming and agriculture.
What is the Agricultural Age?
100
The limits imposed on a design or solution.
What are constraints?
100
An interacting group of items forming a unified whole.
What is a system?
100
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
Time period in which society focused on factories and machines.
What is the Industrial Age?
200
Tool developed by John Deere which made farming easier.
What is the plow?
200
the non-motorized machine to make work easier.
What is a simple machine?
200
A system that is part of another, larger system.
What is a subsystem?
200
A system that CAN adjust to changing conditions.
What is a closed loop system?
300
How comfortable something is to use.
What is ergonomics?
300
Period from the 1950s to now in which inventions are based on technology and computers.
What is the Informational Age?
300
The representation of a proposed product that does not work.
What is modeling?
300
A system containing an input, an output, and process that cannot adjust to varying conditions.
What is an open loop system?
300
The part of a closed loop system that provides control or measurement monitoring.
What is the feedback loop?
400
A series of workstations at which individual steps in the assembly of a product are carried out as the product is moved along.
What is an assembly line?
400
A group problem-solving method of coming up with several designs.
What is brainstorming?
400
The desired result of something.
What is an input?
400
Parts made exactly identical so they can replace broken ones.
What are interchangeable parts?
500
The man who revolutionized industry by endorsing the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
500
The billionaire Harvard-dropout who shaped how people think in terms of computer software.
Who is Bill Gates?
500
The process of planning a project or product.
What is the Design Process?
500
The end result.
What is the output?
500
Things that improve on or make changes to a product, making it better.
What is innovation?