Machinist

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

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Subject: New discussion forums available: machinist and approtech 
(appropriate technology)
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:33:18 -0500
From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lflj@intrex.net>
Organization: Venaura Farm
To: Hardinge-Mill@yahoogroups.com,  Hardinge-Lathe@yahoogroups.com



New discussion forums available: machinist and approtech (appropriate 
technology)

I have created two new email forums that might be of interest.

Machinist
A general discussion forum for beginner to advanced machinists
with an emphasis on using manual equipment and traditional methods and 
techniques
Go here to subscribe:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/machinist
Posting address:  machinist@lists.ibiblio.org

Appropriate Technology
Go here to subscribe:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/approtech
Posting address:  approtech@lists.ibiblio.org
This will be a good place for inventors, designers, fabricators of prototypes 
and product manufacturers
Google M.I.T. on AT:
http://web.mit.edu/ats/
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7105/full/442862a.html
Wikipedia on AT:
Appropriate technology (AT) is technology that is designed with special 
consideration to the environmental, cultural,
social and economic aspects of the community it is intended for. With these 
goals in mind, AT typically requires fewer
resources, is easier to maintain, has a lower overall cost and less of an 
impact on the environment.
Proponents use the term to describe technologies which they consider to be 
suitable for use in developing nations or
underdeveloped rural areas of industrialized nations, which they feel cannot 
operate and maintain high technology.
Appropriate Technology usually prefers labor-intensive solutions over 
capital-intensive ones, although labor-saving
devices are also used where this does not mean high capital or maintenance 
cost.