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Calm down, calm down. I didn't say it was ineffective. Quite the opposite actually.
As to "technically challenging," you had to build the damn thing; as opposed to throwing rocks at someone, or tossing them off a building.
I don't think the 18th century was the idiot-land you think it was.
It takes an engineer making calculations? Thanks for helping make my point โ๏ธ
Just because it was a long time ago, don't assume they were stupid. Their engineers that built castles and structures have that work still standing today--while USA has infrastructure collapsing
A little bit of survivorship bias there, but you are correct that engineers throughout history have been just as smart as engineers today.
As an engineer of today, I find it insulting that you would lower engineers throughout history to my level.
Lolz
Yes agreed. It was simplest relation to come to mind. Guys figuring out gravity and universe math had as much skill (or more) than today, without the advantage of mass computation and world wide collaboration.
Anyone can build a bridge which stands. It takes a engineer to build a bridge which just stands, while not costing an insane amount of money.
That said, engineers throughout history were incredibly smart and shouldn't be discounted.
but you were certainly thinking it loudly. or how else was one to interpret 'people from the 18th century wouldn't be able to do something if it was technically challenging'?
Also, they had plenty of people to test it on as they refined the design