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Article: PROTOTYPING & MODELLING: Introduction.
- Article from:
- Design Week
- Article date:
- April 10, 2008
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Dictionaries seem to agree that a prototype is the earliest defining instance of a thing or class of things. So, for example, the Ford Model T is probably the prototypical mass-produced car and Hancock's Half Hour the prototype for all British TV sitcoms. But the meaning is a little different in the world of manufacturing, where prototyping is part of the development process of a product: a prototype doesn't define the product, but it helps us get there. Although we have several names for the things that get made in the run-up to production - models, mock-ups, rigs and samples - it's well understood that a prototype is a robust, functional construction that's ...
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Article: Dutch Inventor Develops Imprint Lithography ...
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... ... lithography. According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imprint lithography apparatus is disclosed which has a needle, and a substrate table arranged to hold a substrate to be imprinted, wherein ...
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