Workshop
Subtopic: Definition of Workshop
– Room or building for manufacturing or repairing goods
– Provides tools and machinery
– Essential before industrialization
– Common in Western homes in 20th and 21st century
– Contains workbench, hand tools, power tools, and hardware
Subtopic: Types of Workshops
– Automotive repair or restoration workshops
– Woodworking workshops
– Metalworking workshops
– Electronics workshops
– Electronic prototyping workshops
Subtopic: Backshop
– Specialized workshops in repair industries like locomotives and aircraft
– Known as back shops or railway workshops
– Most repairs done in small workshops
– Industrial service required for some repairs
– Different from general workshops
Subtopic: See Also
– Hackspace
– Laboratory
– Machine shop for metalworking
– Skylab orbital workshop
– Studio
Subtopic: References
– Flaherty, Joe – Ford + TechShop: Getting Employees to Tinker
– Burress, Charles – A Tinkerers Paradise in Berkeley
– Carlson, Adam – Top 8 Tools for Building a Personal Prototyping Laboratory
– Wikimedia Commons has media related to Workshops
Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. Workshops were the only places of production until the advent of industrialization and the development of larger factories. In the 20th and 21st century, many Western homes contained a workshop in either the garage, basement, or an external shed. Home workshops typically contain a workbench, hand tools, power tools, and other hardware. Along with the practical application of repairing goods, workshops are often used to tinker and make prototypes.
Some workshops focus exclusively on automotive repair or restoration although there are a variety of workshops in existence today. Woodworking, metalworking, electronics, and other types of electronic prototyping workshops are among the most common.