“Good technology is always beautiful” is a maxim from Claude Dornier, the founding father of the Dornier aircraft industry in and around Friedrichshafen at the lake of Konstanz. The sentence reveals some important truths.
The first truth is about ‘good’ technology. It needs to be reliable and simple. And in simplicity we can often recognise a certain beauty.
The second truth is about beauty. We look for beauty in art. Sometimes, we also see beauty in nature and even in science. But there is certainly a lot of beauty to be discovered in technology. As technology education is often very demanding and time-consuming, very few teachers take the time to uncover this beauty in class. And this is a pity, because good technology is often very beautiful, as Claude Dornier said. We need more teachers who point to this beauty. And we need more boys and girls who recognise this beauty and who want to build more.
I refer to my previous blog about the beauty of the engineering profession.
Picture was taken with permission at DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen.
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