26-07-2022, 06:22 PM
Scientific glassblowing (of which making valves is a subset) is a dying art. It's good to know that it's being kept alive.
This is actually part of a larger class of problems, to do with the passing on of arcane knowledge. It's possible to document how you make something or perform some process but it's not the same as learning in person from a master. The technical term for this sort of thing is "tacit knowledge". It's hard to preserve; making videos like these helps to do this. For that matter forums like Golborne also preserve odd snippets of knowledge. In 30 years time who is going to know about how to fix a valve radio or TV? Even if parts are available or can be remanufactured there's a lot of skill that's much harder to pass on.
This is actually part of a larger class of problems, to do with the passing on of arcane knowledge. It's possible to document how you make something or perform some process but it's not the same as learning in person from a master. The technical term for this sort of thing is "tacit knowledge". It's hard to preserve; making videos like these helps to do this. For that matter forums like Golborne also preserve odd snippets of knowledge. In 30 years time who is going to know about how to fix a valve radio or TV? Even if parts are available or can be remanufactured there's a lot of skill that's much harder to pass on.
www.borinsky.co.uk Jeffrey Borinsky www.becg.tv
