Machine spindle und gutenberg printing press: was sie gemeinsam haben
- Schritt 1. Machine spindle — ist Teil von — Milling machine. It turns the cutter.
- Schritt 2. Milling machine — entwickelte sich zu — CNC-Maschine. The first CNC machines were milling machines (MIT, 1952).
- Schritt 3. CNC-Maschine — nutzt — Program control of a machine. The tool’s movement is set by a program — at first on punched tape.
- Schritt 4. Program control of a machine — wird verwendet in — Jacquard loom. The chain of cards is the program of the pattern.
- Schritt 5. Jacquard loom — funktioniert wie — Gutenberg printing press. An analogy, not proven influence: both set type and a chain of punched cards are a replaceable pattern that a machine reproduces over and over.