Voyager 1 sending again!

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(04-24-2024 08:19 AM)Pierre Wrote:  I think that alone, without any previous technological references, with his unique inventiveness and at the age of 19, Blaise Pascal achieved without doubt the highest engineering achievement in human history so far by inventing the "Pascaline".

As a local patriot to my chosen place of living (even if we have been here since 24 years only) I must say, that "our" Wilhelm Schickard built his calcualting machine, made on purpose for Johannes Kepler, but unfortunately lost in a fire during the 30 years war, almost a decade before Pascal. But anyway, I don't think that the calculating machine is the greatest achievement of mankind. I am rather with Voyager (or even more so, Apollo).

Regards
Max

NB: And Voyager also proves how long technology can work if it is not designed for "planned obsolescence"...