Skeleton-like automotive manufacturing innovations, part 1: The Maserati Birdcage
September 14th, 2010 link to (permalink)
In the late 1950s, Maserati designer/engineer Giulio Alfieri came up with an innovative way to build a racecar: Instead of going with the "steel tub" construction of the time, he devised a crazy-looking trellis of interconnected tubes shaped into a frame. (more...
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