Primordial Haptics, 1925–1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of Prehistory

2021 ◽  
pp. 1357034X2110082
Author(s):  
Max Stadler
Keyword(s):  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Hand Tools ◽  
Manual Labour ◽  
Conveyor Belts

‘Psychotechnics’, Weimar Germany’s science du jour, typically is framed as a symptom of ‘technological media’ – obscuring the persistent significance of ‘dexterity’, ‘skill’ and ‘manual labour’ at the time. More broadly, there is a tendency to construe ‘the haptic’ as predominantly a casualty of modernity: skilled hands replaced by conveyor belts; skilled hands defended by the rearguard actions of arts-and-crafts movements; skilled hands destroyed by industrialized warfare. Drawing on contemporary investigations into the ‘organ of touch’, this essay aims to complicate this picture by reconstructing the proto-ergonomic project of Friedrich Herig, a German engineer, amateur prehistorian and expert on craft labour who rose to distinction in the 1920s as a designer of ‘ideal’ hand tools. Herig’s eclectic sources of inspiration reveal that matters of ‘touch’, far from obsolete, were intimately bound up with matters of tools – their design, uses and putative origins – and thus, with matters of (manual) labour.

Improving Efficiency and Enhancing Productivity in Transporting Fertilizers by Using Conveyor Belt Cleaners

2014 ◽  
Vol 1082 ◽  
pp. 505-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasnim F. Ariff ◽  
Muhd. Fahmi B. Jusoh ◽  
Malek Parnin ◽  
Mohd. Hanif Azenan
Keyword(s):  
Material Handling ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Conveyor Belt ◽  
Material Handling System ◽  
Handling System ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Manual Labour ◽  
The Future ◽  
Conveyor Belts

Conveyor belts are used widely to carry and transport various materials ranging from fertilizers to foods items from the cargo ship to the packaging site. Spillage and carryback problems are common issues relating to transportaion of these types of materials at Malaysian ports. This leads to lots of wastage in fertilizers and food. In addition, extra manual labour work is required to shovel the spillage into the container. This raises the concern of hygiene especially when relating to food items. Furthermore, improper washing and drainage system has also lead to corrosion on the floor. This has resulted in a lot of inefficient work and lack in productivity in the material handling system. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, primary and secondary belt cleaners were designed using CATIA software. These newly improved simple and cost effective designs of the primary and secondary belt cleaners together with a spray shaft and efficient washing box were fabricated, tested and implemented successfully. The spillage was eliminated and with the new washing system, corrosion on the floor can be prevented from occuring in the future.

Perception of the moment of inertia of hand tools

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Zahner ◽  
M. Stephen Kaminaka
Keyword(s):  
Moment Of Inertia ◽  
Hand Tools ◽  
The Moment

Working Together

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi Veiteberg KVELLESTAD ◽  
Ingeborg STANA ◽  
VATN Gunhild
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Manual Skills

Teamwork involves different types of interactions—specifically cooperation andcollaboration—that are necessary in education and many other professions. The differencesbetween cooperation and collaboration underline the teacher’s role in influencing groupdynamics, which represent both a foundation for professional design education and aprequalification for students’ competences as teachers and for critical evaluation. As a testcase, we focused on the Working Together action-research project in design education forspecialised teacher training in design, arts, and crafts at the Oslo Metropolitan University,which included three student groups in the material areas of drawing, ceramics, and textiles.The project developed the participants’ patience, manual skills, creativity, and abilities,which are important personal qualities for design education and innovation and representcornerstones in almost every design literacy and business environment. The hope is thatstudents will transform these competences to teaching pupils of all ages in their futurecareers.

Roman lamp from the Ἀρχέπολις workshop and other late antique lamps from Burial House 1/2007 in the Harbour Necropolis of Ephesos

2019 ◽  
pp. 321-334
Author(s):  
Marina Ugarković
Keyword(s):  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Customer Demand ◽  
Burial Rites ◽  
Grave Goods

The article presents ceramic lamps discovered during the 2007 rescue excavation conducted in Burial House 1/2007 in the Roman and late antique Harbour Necropolis of Ephesos, located north of the harbour channel. An imported Roman lamp of probable Cypriot origin, with the first instance of an 'Aρχεπόλεως signature coming from Ephesos, is given special attention among the grave goods from Grave 3. It depicts Hercules dragging Cerberus from the Underworld. Other finds represent imported and local late antique arts and crafts. Some of these may have been used in the context of Ephesian burial rites, most conceivably as lighting devices, contributing thus to a better understanding of local crafts and customer demand.

Pioneer Arts and Crafts

1968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Guillet
Keyword(s):  
Arts And Crafts

AISI 1566

Alloy Digest ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Steel ◽  
Heat Treating ◽  
Agricultural Machinery ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
Hand Tools ◽  
Steel Mills ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cold Worked ◽  
Hot Rolled ◽  
Good Workability

Abstract AISI 1566 is a high-carbon (nominally 0.66% carbon) steel containing 0.85-0.15% manganese. Its hardenability is low and on austenitizing and liquid quenching it develops a hard (martensitic) surface with a soft, ductile core. It can be used in the hot-rolled, annealed, normalized, cold-worked or liquid-quenched-and-tempered condition for a wide range of applications. It has good machinability and good workability. Its many uses include springs, shafts, hand tools, railway parts and agricultural machinery. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: CS-100. Producer or source: Carbon steel mills.

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