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Dear All
There was a letter in last week's New Civil Engineer which I shall reproduce
for you:
"I support the suggestion made by your correspondent (nCE 7 June) that
Meccano be adopted by schools to assist in the study of construction.
Unfortunately it is my experience that teachers expect children to construct
things using Lego, which although it has some merits, is absolutely hopeless
for modelling structures or demonstrating mechanics."
The writer provided his address so after a few hours to calm down I thought
we might like to respond to this.
What do you think?
Psi
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Message has 5 Replies:
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| What a petty, hasn't meccano gone bust. on another point My fiancee who is a civil engineer is always nicking my lego to use as illustrations for construction techniques James "Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| (...) I think it's probably been written by someone who missed out on the whole Technic line by being quite old and narrow-minded. Since when did Meccano have a helicopter swashplate on their parts inventory? And can you build epicyclic gearboxes (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| (...) My wife used to work for the American Society of Civil Engineers and to the best of my recollection, that organization is really into using KNEX for educational purposes. She did bring in LEGO for a 'play' area for a bring your kid to work day (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| (...) I think he's right. I have a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering, and took many courses in engineering mechanics. The simplifications used in engineering mechanies are better modeled by Meccano (or Erector sets) than in Lego. Techniq is better (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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