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> The Water Integrator was an early analog computer built in the Soviet Union in 1936 by Vladimir Sergeevich Lukyanov. It functioned by careful manipulation of
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> The Water Integrator was an early analog computer built in the Soviet Union in 1936 by Vladimir Sergeevich Lukyanov. It functioned by careful manipulation of water through a room full of interconnected pipes and pumps. The water level in various chambers (with precision to fractions of a millimeter) represented stored numbers, and the rate of flow between them represented mathematical operations. This machine was capable of solving inhomogeneous differential equations.
https://www.techspot.com/trivia/97-1930s-which-countries-built-analog-computer-ran-water/ https://www.techspot.com/trivia/97-1930s-which-countries-bui...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_integrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_integrator
- robocat 4y agoHere’s an analogue computer called the MONIAC from ~1949 that calculates monetary flow in an economy: https://www.engineeringnz.org/programmes/heritage/heritage-records/moniac-and-bill-phillips/ https://www.engineeringnz.org/programmes/heritage/heritage-r... with a fairly naff video of it operating but captures the essence: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZavOcEnLg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZavOcEnLg I like the COMPAQ branding added to it!