Sunday, December 12, 2010

How far?

I'm feeling rather good, so here's some triumphs for all of humanity.

In the spirit of Bobbi's great post on this subject.

And that is how far we've come. Cutting-edge machining work in Babbage's day, children's toys in our day. Heck, the thing could've been built that way in the 1920s or 1930s.

And here's something a mite older than Babbage's creation:

2 comments:

Joanna said...

Oh, Lego. Is there anything it can't do?

Roberta X said...

Is that not one of the most wonderful things, ever?