A tale of a "CrazyEngineer"
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 👍
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Ankita Katdare#-Link-Snipped-# Great story. The story also tells us that a true crazy engineer can not leave a problem unsolved. After all, being an engineer means being able to offer solutions and make lives better.
Thanks for the share. 😀
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Kaustubh KatdareI've a slightly different take on this. Though engineers are supposed to be the problem solvers, very few are the problem discoverers. How many of us have an eye for looking at problems around us and come up with a solution? Or are we just too lazy to use our brains?
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ISHAN TOPRE#-Link-Snipped-# Insane but funny.
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Prashant Munshi
A scientist is a person who "observes" things and events in surrounding that everybody "see" and then thinks about it. It is a kind of mindset. Everybody who observes and thinks is a scientist irrespective of his educational degree or background or no educational background.The_Big_KI've a slightly different take on this. Though engineers are supposed to be the problem solvers, very few are the problem discoverers. How many of us have an eye for looking at problems around us and come up with a solution? Or are we just too lazy to use our brains? -
ISHAN TOPRE...Or should we call what the prisoner did as "Extreme Engineering".
#-Link-Snipped-# You always wanted to work on mega projects, didn't you? This one is Crazy_Engineering mega project! Embrace the gallows!😁 -
PraveenKumar PurushothamanGood one dude!!! The same is with another story saying that there were three people, the doctor, the lawyer and the engineer. At the end, the engineer will identify why didn't the neck cutter cut. There are many stories and real life incidents like this, which shows that the engineering is not only a religion, but it is merged in the DNA, blood, nerves, organs of the human...
Engineers are a species... Not a religion!!!Proud to be one among them!!! 😀
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