[00:00:06] Speaker A: Hello and welcome to this featured episode of the Axiom Insights Learning and Development Podcast. I'm Scott Rutherford. For the past several years now, we've been releasing podcast episodes all focused on driving performance through learning.
This episode isn't one of those.
This April 1st, for April Fool's Day, we released a video called the Strategic Learning encabulator. It's on YouTube and you can also find it from the web address learningincabulator.
Or you can get there from the episode page for this
[email protected] podcast now I've been a fan of the Encabulator spoofs ever since I first saw the version that was filmed in the 1990s. But it turns out there's a much longer history behind it and so I wanted to take this episode to share the history with you and also to give credit to the folks behind it.
The first version of it appears as the turboencabulator more than 80 years ago and in England published in 1944. The article was called the turboencabulator in industry.
It was written by engineering student John Helens Quick and it appeared in the Students Quarterly Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and again on the Encabulator page on our website. You can read the full text of the original, or if you want to wait a minute, I'm going to do my best to read it as voiceover at the end of this episode. Wish me luck.
It became famous in technical documentation, engineering and technical communication circles thanks to its authoritative sounding technically complex nonsense. And some of the gibberish terms that appeared in the first 1944 version were carried forward into each subsequent revision.
So let's jump ahead a few years. The next version on record appeared as a joke created by staff at General Electric in December of 1962. GE's version was a technical specification sheet for their version of the TurboEncabulator. And if you're listening to the audio version of this episode, you can look at the visual of this by going to the video version or the episode page.
But the GE version carries forward some of the wonderfully absurd jargon from the original, like the use of six gyro controlled anti gravic marzal vanes or instructions for its use in unilateral phase detractors.
The next chapter in the Encabulator story comes in 1977, thanks to actor and training video presenter Bud Haggard. Bud was an award winning broadcaster. He once served as president of the Detroit chapter of the Screen Actors Guild he had a long career in the Detroit area doing instructional training videos and similar voiceover projects. And as the story goes, he and a film crew had just finished a day of shooting video for the master technician training program at Chrysler and he was asked to do a version late in the day of the encabulator to camera.
As the story goes, Bud's producer was feeding the script in real time through an earpiece. Here it is.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters.
Such an instrument is the turboencabulator.
Now, basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magnetoreluctance and capacitive directance.
The original machine had a base plate of pre famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with a panametric fam. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic Marzel vanes, so fitted to the ambifacian lunar wainshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal Lotus O delta type, placed in panendermic semi boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the up end of the Grammys.
The turboencabulator has now reached a high level of development and it's being successfully used in the operation of nophotrunions. Moreover, whenever a fluorescent score motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal replenish.
It's not cheap, but I'm sure the government will buy it.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: The next chapter in the encabulator story comes to us in the 1990s. Actor and training presenter Mike Kraft did a take of this using a script similar to the prior version, with some updates and some nods to the company he was working with at the time, Rockwell Automation. So with that, here's Mike Kraft's version called the Retroencambulator.
[00:05:22] Speaker C: Here at Rockwell Automation's world headquarters, research has been proceeding to develop a line of Automation products that establishes new standards for quality technological leadership and operating excellence.
With customer success as our primary focus, work has been proceeding on the crudely conceived idea of an instrument that would not only provide inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal gram meters.
Such an instrument, comprised of Dodge gears and bearings, Reliant electric motors, Allen Bradley controls and all monitored by Rockwell software, is Rockwell Automation's retroencabulator.
Now, basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it's produced by the modial interaction of magnetoreluctance and capacitive directance.
The original machine had a base plate of pre famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with a panametric fan.
The lineup consisted simply of six hydrocoptic Marzel vanes, so fitted to the ambifacian lunar wainshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.
The main winding was of the normal Lotus O deltoid type placed in panendermic semi boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the up end of the gram meters.
Moreover, whenever fluorescent score motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal deplenariation.
The retroencabulator has now reached a high level of development and it's being successfully used in the operation of Milford Trunnions.
It's available soon wherever Rockwell Automation products are sold.
[00:07:22] Speaker A: Mike Kraft appeared as a guest on the Manufacturing Happy hour podcast in 2021, and in that interview he described how his version got rediscovered by later on social media through sites like Ebaum's World and Reddit. And I'll have a link to that interview and that podcast episode on our episode page if you want to check it out. In more recent years, others have taken on the encabulator parody and there are several circulating on social media and YouTube. And while most of these make some minor adjustments and tailoring, each one carries forward a surprising number of references from earlier and from the original version. So there are a number of references that you can trace back through all of these editions back to the original print edition that was published again more than 80 years ago.
So back to me I guess. Why did I want to take a stab at the encabulator. It's a good question.
For one, I thought it'd be fun. It's as simple as that, but with a slightly more serious lens. I kind of like the idea that the encabulator spoof focuses on tearing down impenetrable jargon, and in the learning and development world we've got plenty of jargon, and sometimes the most valuable thing we can do is to remember to edit and to simplify, because I think we're all better off when we can be clear and straightforward. And it's better for us, it's better for our colleagues, and ultimately better for our learners.
So with that, I'm going to take a shot at voicing the original turboencabulator script text as published in 1944 here goes.
For a number of years now work has been proceeding in order to bring prefection to the crudely conceived idea that a machine could work to not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detectors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such a machine is the turboencabulator. Basically, the only new principle involved is that instead of the power being generated by the relaxive motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interactions of magnetoreluctance and compassitive directance.
The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite surrounded by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic Marzal vanes, so fitted to the ambifastioned lunar vane shaft. That side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal Lotus O delta type placed in panendermic semi obloid salts in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non reversible termic pipe to the differential girdle spring on the up end of the grameter 41 monastically placed grouting brushes were arranged to feed into the rotor slipstream a mixture of high S value phenylhydrobenzamine and 5% remediative tetraiodexamine.
Both these liquids have specific pericosities given by P2.4CN, where N is the diathetical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is the commodity's annual grillage coefficient. Initially N was measured with the aid of a metapolar pulferometer, but to the present date, nothing has been found to equal the transcendental hopper data scope.
Electrical engineers will appreciate the difficulty of nubbing together a regurgitative perwell and a superanimative wennel sprocket. Indeed, this proved to be a stumbling block to further development until, in 1943 it was found that use of anhydrous nagling pins enabled a kypnotastic boiling shim to be tankered. The early attempts to construct a sufficiently robust spiral decommutator failed largely because of lack of appreciation of the large quasipedic stresses in the gremlin studs. The latter were specifically designed to hold the rofit bars to the spam shaft. When, however, it was discovered that wending could be prevented by the simple addition of teeth to socket, almost perfect running was secured.
The operating point is maintained as near as possible to the HF rem peak by constantly fromaging the bituminous spandrums.
This is a distinct advance on the standard naval sheave in that no dramic oil is required after the phase detractors have remissed.
Undoubtedly, the turboencabulator has now reached a very high level of technical development. It has been successfully used for operating no for trunnions. In addition, whenever a berescent score motion is required, it may be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal deplenariation.
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