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Re: New Civil Engineer letter
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Mon, 2 Jul 2001 16:06:17 GMT
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I feel compelled to add;
When I was a Meccanno fan, some years ago now, and the proud owner
of a Set 10, complete with drawer cabinet, Lego hadn't invented gear wheels
yet. Because we had Lego too, and it was the construction toy of choice
for buildings, but not mechanical devices, I was biased toward Meccanno
and metal for mechanical designs.
I think that, at some time in the more recent past, Lego has truely become
the dominant technical construction toy followed by the somewhat oddly
scaled fischertechnik stuff.
But, most times I visit the UK and am in the area, I usually drop in on that
little Meccanno store in Henley just to see what's new.
JB
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > The man has a point. The typical construction of an inexperienced student
> > isn't likely to hang together very well, especially if it's built using • tall
> > columns of basic bricks, etc. And things that don't hang together don't
> > demonstrate mechanical principles.
>
> I sortof see this and sortof don't. If they are talking specifically about
> civil
> engineering then fair enough, and I suppose the fact that you can
> "legally" bend
> meccano parts in ways not really possible with Lego could be relevant, but one
> of the reasons I always preferred Technic over Meccano (aside from the fact I
> never had Meccano) was that Technic seemed to offer far more possibilities
> when
> it came to making mechanisms and vehicles.
>
> Why this should be I have no idea, and I certainly haven't explored Meccano to
> any great extent, but things usually looked a bit clunky in it and for some
> reason it seemed less flexible (in terms of what you could do) than Lego. I
> could make all sorts of grotesque contraptions with huge gear trains and
> whatnots far easier with Lego, and perhaps even more importantly do it more
> quickly; things click and pop together rather than needing to be bolted on.
>
> I am almost certainly biased in this (maybe my brain is just geared
> towards Lego
> far more than Meccano), but with all of the great Technic works on the
> Internet,
> for someone to dismiss it as being useless at demonstrating mechanics
> shows they
> haven't done their research well enough :-)
>
> Jennifer
> http://www.telepresence.strath.ac.uk/jen/lego/
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