schematics
A channel for sharing schematics, processes, and everything in between. Viewing the internal systems of things we love.
@luzotxoa
From Edo-era candlesticks & Kagi charts to Ishikawa’s Pareto chart & fishbone diagram, Japanese innovators shaped how we see data, long before it went global.
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@paul-prudence
The Ecological Relations of Roots - John Ernest Weaver, 1919
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https://archive.org/details/ecologicalrelati00weav/page/n140/mode/1up
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'In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, a college graduate named Shea Zellweger began a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic' ~
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/wertheim_zellweger.php
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Illustrations from the somewhat splendidly titled 'The Material Universe: Its Vastness and Durability' - Mungo Ponton [1863]
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Mapping the dynamics of phyllotaxis in Palms.
Illustration from Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius’s Historia naturalis palmarum, issued in 10 parts, 1823-50
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Lead-Tin alloy wire explosion pattern (Anonymous)
Plate 8 from Eerste vervolg der proefneemingen, gedaan met Teyler's electrizeer-machine - by Martinus van Marum, 1787
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Studies of a solar microscope’s box, showing its main body with cover and optical tube - Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, 1768.
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László Moholy-Nagy, Stefan Sebök (drawing), The mechanics of the light prop for an electric stage, 1930
I never tire of looking at these schematics for the Light prop (later the Light Space Modulator)
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You can feel these surfaces in a way that is not possible with computational visualisations because the forms were felt implicitly by the hand that drew them.
From Tables of Functions with Formulae and Curves - Eugene Jahnke & Fritz Emde, 1909
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(phase) array aesthetics
Amplitude diagrams for antennae arrays in The Bell System Technical Journal, 1922
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Elektrostatische Entladung [electrostatic discharge] from Joseph Meyer's Konversations encyclopedia, 1890
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