Question: Did you learn about so-called “simple machines” (lever, wheel-axle, inclined plane, wedge, screw is one popular set) in school? Did your teacher critique the model or offer alternatives to it?

(for context, from a modern engineering perspective, this is basically a bullshit theory of machines on par with 5 elements, 4 humors etc)

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…oh damn for real?  I honestly thought it was a legit theory of mechanical primitives.

Are there more primitives?

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

people’s sense of mechanical primitives ~ standardized parts

feeling more like manufacturing primitives and generative components