7and8

I'm a visual person. Visual learner, expedited understanding for me comes from pictures and exploded diagrams. Give me a white board and an audience and I'd be in my element. Yesterday I took 7&8 to the Charles River Museum of Industry. I'd like to share my moment of clarity but I understand that it probably means more to me.

An elder statesman showed us a machine shop from the turn of the century (not that one the other one). This was right out of the industrial revolution. All of the machines were run from one power source (originally it was a water wheel then later replaced by a steam engine). From the source the machines were connected to it by a line of belts and pulleys. If a machine broke it needed to be fixed when it was not running but you couldn't stop the power source or all of the machines on that line would stop running. So he shows us how if you move this lever the belt driving the machine slips to the side onto a free-spinning idle pulley so the rest of the line runs but the broken machine is not connected to the line or 'offline'

It is easy to forget that there is nothing new under the sun. Personally, I like their jargon better. I'm going offline new skool now.