Alban Philips, a maverick self-taught New Zealander, built an analogue computer in 1949, capable of solving 9 simultaneous differential equations in a few minut

Alban Philips, a maverick self-taught New Zealander, built an analogue computer in 1949, capable of solving 9 simultaneous differential equations in a few minutes and modelling the macroeconomics of a country’s economy - the UK’s first non-human computer. Now it is being rebuilt