how was the first machine created if a machine is needed to produce parts to create another machine?

Question

answer with personal theories/insights/opinions in your own words.if you don't have a clue or don't care,don't answer.

explain the technicalities and related process.

misunderstood answers so far-i'm talking about electronic machines and similar technology,such as all the parts needed to build a phone.

doesn't metal and making molds need to be exposed to very high temperatures? how did they build a burner to make those metal molds?

i mean how did they make a burner which is capable of producing extremely high temps needed to make metal molds,glass molds & bake ceramics.

i have one of those see-thru lucite phones where you can see all of the mini components that look like beans and colored candy connected to seemingly complicated wiring to make it into an operable communication device.so that sparked my curiosity as how someone figured how to produce all these parts from scratch and form such a simple invention seen from today but amazing when it first appeared on the market.

thanks for all of the feedback:)

hi.i was curious about the mechanics of the phone.i mean one day someone was wondering how to make communication faster/convenient instead of delivery letters by horseman.so the idea was probably sketched on paper but how exactly to start building this phone device.i mean all of the bead-like/pill capsule parts(handcrafted?) assembled onto a circuit board with wiring that would make the device workable.if someone gave you all the necessary separate parts,how would one go about putting together the parts to build a phone,without any kind of directions?it's intriguing how the inventor of the phone figured how to create all these bead-like/pill capsule mini parts to begin with and somehow connect them together to make his idea come to life.it's ironic how the cellular phone has advanced with all these new features,yet some people probably haven't a clue as to how the vintage cord phone works.i asked some people&they're still puzzled as to how sound travels through the telephone wiring lol

hi again.yeah,i'm not sure how to phrase questions and the details section keep running out of room for me to type lol i need like a 5000 character text box at least;) i'm one of those annoyingly curious people.i'd hand out a 50 page survey if people bothered to fill them out.i keep adding details and noticed people actually pay attention.very much appreciated:)

Answer 1

You do not need a machine to create another machine. You *do* need tools to create a machine though. Tools can be a machine, but they do not have to be. A hammer is a tool, a screwdriver is a tool, and your hands are also tools.

Using your hands as original tools, you can create a set of better tools: a hammer, a primitive saw, or a stone knife. With these tools, you can create more tools that are more durable, more precise, or more specialized. And with these tools, you can make even better tools. You see where this is going.

Once your tools are precise enough, you can start building a machine. If you can work wood precisely enough, for instance, then you can build a water mill. If you have tools that can work metal well enough, then you can make wire, blades, and gears, which can be used to make an electric saw. This machine is, of course, a tool in itself. You will be able to cut faster and more precise, so the number of machines you can now build is increased.

Once you have tools that can handle wire and electricity, then you can start building circuits. To get to the first computer, you do not really need that much. You need wires of course, and you need something that can take a few inputs and create a new output. A vacuum tube is good enough at first, and that is just a glorified light bulb with some extra wires. To store programs, some paper with holes will do at first: punchcards.

Once you get the first computer running, you can use it to help design components for a better, faster computer: transisters, integrated circuits, lasers, and magnetic storage. In fact, the computer becomes a general purpose tool that brings you much further, much faster.

The reason that computers can become continually better without needing to completely rethink how a computer works, is due to a concept call a "Turing Machine" A Turing Machine is a description of a machine that takes some inputs and can create output following some set of rules. One of the nifty things about a Turing Machine, is that any Turing Machine can simulate any other Turing Machine. At the most basic level, a PC, a PlayStation, a Mac, an old Atari, or our vacuum tube, paper eating computer are all exactly the same.

Answer 2

The parts for many machines are made by other machines nowadays, but his certainly hasn't always been so. It's been a case of fine craftsmanships most of which are dying arts.
The way in which metal is melted and made into shapes in pretty much the same as it's been since the bronze age. Brick stone or mud ovens and ore or metal holders of clay. Coke, wood or coal (forget the electric and gas they use now) fuel and air pumped under the flames to make them fierce enough to melt metals. Molten metal poured into shaped moulds and shaped by hammering and filing..
For your basic phones, or telegraphy first. Wire made by pulling hot metal through small bore holes (I'm a big bore). Found that coiled wire with electricity passed through it caused an electric current with the variable magnetic pulses that could be produced could make the clicker on a telegraph move. Then later, the striker for the bell on a phone.
Lots of effort, experiments, accidents, discovery of the properties of materials led us to the incredible machines and electronics we have now in just a 100 or so years. Steam power was the biggest stepping stone in the industrial revolution. It powers the wonder that is the computer you are using now. Nuclear, coal gas and oil all create steam for powering the turbines. (If you're in US you'll have a fair bit of energy from dams). All the way way down the line, it's been a case of improving on what you've got. Not unlike the way you keep improving on your question - as you reread it something else occurs to you which you think makes it and improvemnet on the original. however, you have had that degree of language ability to start with and could have streamlined your question better. If we treated machinery and tecnology in that way, we'd have some odd looking and cumbersome contraptions. At this point we take the best of what we have, rearrange and straemline it into the bargain. We notice it's so much smaller a package that we can add a few extras and still have a smaller more efficient package.
The "beans" in your phone and other electronics are transistors of a type. Some will be current restrictors and capacitors which store up electrical charges. Othere will be switching devices all based on their efficacy at regulating electric current. Some will have different 'recipes' in the material makeup to bring this about. Most of these 'beans' are etched, microscopically and with ever finer lazers, onto a semi conducting material called (I'm sure you know) silicon. There are literally millions of these on a silicon chip. Want to get basic again? Silicon is basically rock. Not really the sort of stuff you associate with sophisticated electronic devices. But then nor is steam and to power most of this stuff. No more additions to your ammended question. You need a team of oxford university's finest to satisfy your answer, or a comedian.

Answer 3

Some machines are so primitive that you don't need a machine to make them. A stick can be a lever. A slanted rock is a wedge.

Subsequent machines are compound devices. A knife is a wedge. A hammer is a lever. You go on from there. One innovation leads to another.

You may want to seek out "Connections", a British TV series aired in the USA that shows how simple machines combined with innovation leads from one invention to another. For instance, a boat sail leads to sail improvements, which leads to ever-increasing timepieces (for longitude computation), etc.

As far as complex machines like computers, it doesn't matter. It follows the same process. The integrated circuit came from transistors, which came from vacuum tubes, which came from light bulbs, which came from electricity, which came from layden jars, which came from static electricity which came from animal fur. Modern computers as calculating engines came from accounting machines, which came from inspiration from Babbage's Folly, which came from Jacquard looms, which came from mechanical robot-like devices etc.

Metals and alloys are ancient. It is impossible to determine how alloys were discovered but my guess it was probably that an accident revealed that combinations of metals and other minerals had better properties than the base elemental metals.

Answer 4

A machine merely multiplies force. The simplest machine is a lever. For example, if you take a heavy stick (tree branch) and stick one end of it under a large rock, place a small stone near that end, you can raise this large rock with a small effort on the opposite longer end of the stick. No "machines" are required to make the stick/tree branch, stone or rock. The electronics in a computer is not really a machine since no forces are changed by the electronics.

Answer 5

The first machines were made of very simple, naturally grown materials such as wood, silk, etc. Over time as humans got better with metals, they replaced the parts of their machines and the machinese themselves with metal parts and metal machines casted from molds.

Then during the industrial revolution, it became easier and easier to make machine parts and machines faster which allowed for the rise of trade because scientific knowledge and engineering became more and more common.

Eventually all the simple machines were replaced by new metals, alloys, and better technology.

Answer 6

By the defintion of machine, machine is a device which converts one form of energy into other form.. so the wheel was the first machine invented ry the humans .It converts rotary motion into linear motion..for manufacturing the wheel, a plainwood alone would have been used..

Answer 7

The first machines were sticks and stones and maybe bones.

Even animals use sticks and grass, etc to do work.

So the first tools are ready made by nature.

Imagination is all that is necessary to create new tools from the old

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I believe the first machines were created with tools by hand. It makes sense if you think abou it. Once machines were created they were operated by people. Eventually, machines were created to operate on their own and finally with computers which, yes, were first created with tools, created by machines, created by hand with tools.

Answer 10

a hammer and an anvil together with a file