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The Nature of Technology with Brain Arthur [Idea Machines #41]

Idea Machines

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Principles Transferred From One Discipline to Another

H henry ford took the idea of ar conveyer belt from the meat industry rit. By analogy, he used the same principle with manufacturing cars. But to get that to work in the car industry, different cars are a lot heavier. And so things translate, principles translated from one area to another and that's a very important mechanism.

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