Mechanical computers may not oversee today’s automated tasks, but it’s still possible to build your own using literal ...

An analog computer is not fundamentally "more accurate" than a digital computer, at all, in any sense. They had nice advantages for the specialized uses to which they were put, but that is not one ...

Before the era of digital electronic computers, mechanical analog computers were found everywhere. From the relative simplicity of bomb sights to the complexity of fire control computers on 1940s b… ...

Today, most of what we think of as a computer uses digital technology. But that wasn’t always the case. From slide rules to mechanical fire solution computers to electronic analog computers, … ...

So my buddy analog guru Eric Schlaepfer found a neat series of US Navy videos about their fire-control computers used before tubes and op-amps did the calculations. Mechanical engineers are sure to ...

Analog computers represented constants and variables with proportional analog voltage levels. These were then processed by various electronic circuits that performed the mathematical operations in ...

A.B. Clymer, "The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell," Annals of the History of Computing, 15, #2, 1993, 19-34. Accession file. Location Currently not on view Credit Line ...

In the mid-20th century, electronic analog computers replaced the mechanical ones, with series of resistors, capacitors, inductors and amplifiers taking the place of gears and drive shafts.

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to digital computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the ...

In the mid 1960's, an undergraduate friend invited me along to a lab where he had to run some “programs” on an analog computer. That sounded interesting. He set up his program with resistors and ...

With the Navy's analog computer I guess once all the many variables were entered the actual computation consisted of turning a crank, and voila, the answer. Computers are much faster now.