Quiz: The Engineer’s Obsolete Toolkit
Quiz: The Engineer’s Obsolete Toolkit
See what you know about apparatuses and devices that helped engineers do their jobs before computers.
It’s easy to take for granted how much modern technology has facilitated the way engineers perform calculations and simulations. But it really wasn’t all that long ago that computers weren’t a thing.
Do you know how a planimeter works? Or what a nomogram does? Test your knowledge about some of the now obsolete tools that helped engineers of the past with this ASME quiz.
Do you know how a planimeter works? Or what a nomogram does? Test your knowledge about some of the now obsolete tools that helped engineers of the past with this ASME quiz.
See what you know about apparatuses and devices that helped engineers do their jobs before computers.
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