Talk:Reverse engineering

Would the bombe and the Enigma machine be an example of reverse engineering? 31.51.114.61 (talk) 21:57, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Regarding the :


 * The Enigma machine is also listed in the TOW article on (under the headline "Reverse engineering for military applications"):


 * Hope this helps! Reverend Black Percy (talk) 22:10, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

But does it count as an example of reverse engineering - or a useful analogy? 86.146.99.34 (talk) 22:06, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

And there are a few cases of 'engineer encounters an "interesting device" in a SF story and decides "I want one of those/that gizmo is exactly what I need" and makes it.' (Though some of the gizmos are extrapolations of what is/what would logically be necessary/useful and 'the inner workings' are not described: AC Clarke and the communications satellite being one example). Anna Livia (talk) 15:50, 22 September 2017 (UTC)