A tale of a "CrazyEngineer"
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Oct 7, 2024
Oct 7, 2024
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This is tale of a "CrazyEngineer", sad, one of us who died but lived to the religion called Engineering. Yes, please realize that engineering is a name of a religion. An utmost scientific branch of science based on measurements, keen observation and implementation of the principles of science. Normally this story could have been circulated as a joke on we, the engineers and I have heard of this story at one of the conferences, probably was told to poke fun at Engineers, without understanding the other side of it - engineering as a religion. Anyway the story goes as -
A "CrazyEngineer" was convicted and awarded capital punishment - to be hanged by neck until death. The day and the time was fixed for executing the award. The "CrazyEngineer" was brought to the gallows. The executioner (Jallad) was then testing the gallows before execution. He had a human dummy of equal height and filled with sand of equal weight as the convict. The noose was tightened around the neck of the dummy and the lever was pulled, but the drop board didn't drop. Oh, there was something gone wrong with the mechanism. The executioner checked with it, but could not find the fault. He once again tried to hang the dummy, in hope if he could detect the fault. He tried again and again 4-5 times but to no success. The "CrazyEngineer" was watching this, his hands cuffed behind his back; got anxious about the problem and by now had observed that there was a huge play in the links that pulled the rafters under the support drop board and so since those did not fully moved out, the board wouldn't drop. He immediately pleaded to offer the help and repaired the mechanism. And ..... obvious happened.
The story is told - some may have laughed at poor logic of the convict. But the real moral, which all those laughed have ignored is that, an engineer must remember that an he has to be a keen observer and not only have an eye for the exact measurement but must believe that if the scientific principle is correctly applied then the appliance must work.
Share it with pride 👍
A "CrazyEngineer" was convicted and awarded capital punishment - to be hanged by neck until death. The day and the time was fixed for executing the award. The "CrazyEngineer" was brought to the gallows. The executioner (Jallad) was then testing the gallows before execution. He had a human dummy of equal height and filled with sand of equal weight as the convict. The noose was tightened around the neck of the dummy and the lever was pulled, but the drop board didn't drop. Oh, there was something gone wrong with the mechanism. The executioner checked with it, but could not find the fault. He once again tried to hang the dummy, in hope if he could detect the fault. He tried again and again 4-5 times but to no success. The "CrazyEngineer" was watching this, his hands cuffed behind his back; got anxious about the problem and by now had observed that there was a huge play in the links that pulled the rafters under the support drop board and so since those did not fully moved out, the board wouldn't drop. He immediately pleaded to offer the help and repaired the mechanism. And ..... obvious happened.
The story is told - some may have laughed at poor logic of the convict. But the real moral, which all those laughed have ignored is that, an engineer must remember that an he has to be a keen observer and not only have an eye for the exact measurement but must believe that if the scientific principle is correctly applied then the appliance must work.
Share it with pride 👍
