Imagineering Edit Meaning

1.

Bleeding edge development of new and exotic products, often without adequate prototypes or product testing, sometimes with devastating or expensive results. Associated with pushing products to market.

The 1940's Lockheed reverse canard solid fuel flying-wing alpha prototype (the human bottle rocket) was imagineering at its best.

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2.

Imagineering is fused from the words Imagination and Engineering.

The first referenced use of the word Imagineering comes from an article dated 2nd May 1947 in the Portsmouth (Ohio) Times. The article describes the work of a top-notch commercial illustrator Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974)

imagineering is what we do when we use our imagination in the non phicisal world to engineer something tangible in the phisical world

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