Design Cycle Notecard Challenge

We had to make little papers and fold them up into little columns. Then we either had a chance to get the Atkins A, where Mr. Atkins would stand on the columns and see if he could stand on it. Or we had to stack as much books as we can and weigh how much it was. We failed by not having enough columns that would hold Mr. Atkins up, because it was either not stable or the columns were too big or too small. Overturning was a big problem in our class. Overturning was when something tips over so that it is on its side or upside down.

Skyscraper

Original architectural model of the World Trade Center on exhibit at the Skyscraper Museum

The Skyscraper Museum is an architecture museum located in Battery Park City, Manhattan, New York City and founded in 1996.  Before moving to the current and permanent location in Battery Park City in 2004, the museum was a nomadic institution, holding pop-up exhibitions in donated spaces around Lower Manhattan since 1996. The original site of the museum was located very close to the World Trade Center. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the museum was forced to close temporarily as its space was commandeered as an emergency information center. This is academically relevant because it shows how the building stays up.




Joe Scotto

Innovation

Innovation: iPhone
Inventor: Steve Jobs
Created in: 2007

      The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It runs Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007; the most recent iPhones, the seventh-generation iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, were revealed on September 10, 2013. Before the iPhone, the blackberry was the popular phone.
      It was just like the iPhone but the iPhone was more improved and it had more applications and more things to do. This changed society by making everyone get the iPhone because it was new and improved and it was more intellegent than all the other phones. There are six generations of iPhone models, each accompanied by one of the six major releases of iOS. The original 1st-generation iPhone was a GSM phone and established design precedents, such as a button placement that has persisted through all models and a screen size maintained for the next four iterations.



Invention: Steam Radiator
Inventor: Franz San Galli
Created: 1855

       The steam radiator was created by Franz San Galli, in 1855. Steam has the advantage of flowing through the pipes under its own pressure without the need for pumping. For this reason, it was adopted earlier, before electric motors and pumps became available. Steam is also far easier to distribute than hot water throughout large, tall buildings like skyscrapers. However, the higher temperatures at which steam systems operate make them inherently less efficient, as unwanted heat loss is inevitably greater.
       Steam pipes and radiators are prone to producing banging sounds often incorrectly called water hammer. The bang is created when some of the steam condenses into water in a horizontal section of the steam piping. Subsequently, steam picks up the water, forms a "slug" and hurls it at high velocity into a pipe fitting, creating a loud hammering noise and greatly stressing the pipe. This condition is usually caused by a poor condensate drainage strategy and is often caused by buildings settling and the resultant pooling of condensate in pipes and radiators that no longer tilt slightly back towards the boiler.

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