08
Jan

2010

Gadget Value

Post by Steven Dale

What a wonderful phrase:  “Gadget value.”  I just stumbled upon it in an old history text book and instantly fell in love with the term . . .

Gadget Value is the intrinsic interest a mechanism generates totally separate from it’s use. It’s why we love cars, trains and any other mechanism.

Cable has massive Gadget Value, and even though I don’t have a statistic to support that claim, I’m pretty sure it’s true.

Furthermore, I suspect that’s why people have been so responsive to it.  Gadget Value is important.



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Comments

  1. Hi Steven, A station that utilizes a Ferris Wheel type device to bring Gondolas down from the overhead cables to street level for passenger boarding and back up again has a lot of Gadget Value!

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