Found in a thrift store. Hard to believe that people used to use this actual thing to do actual calculations to fly actual planes. #SlideRule #AnalogComputer #aviation
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Mechanic Prince of Tides - Lord Kelvin’s name comes up anytime you start looking at the history of science an... - https://hackaday.com/2024/06/05/mechanic-prince-of-tides/ #williamthompson #analogcomputer #lordkelvin #history #science #tides
Hackaday · Mechanic Prince Of TidesLord Kelvin’s name comes up anytime you start looking at the history of science and technology. In addition to working on transatlantic cables and thermodynamics, he also built an early compu…
Computer Gear with — um — Gears - Analog computers have been around in some form for a very long time. One very obvi... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/21/computer-gear-with-um-gears/ #analogcomputer #teardown #military #tank
Hackaday · Computer Gear With — Um — GearsAnalog computers have been around in some form for a very long time. One very obvious place they were used was in military vehicles. While submarine fire computers and the Norden bombsight get all …
Reverse-Engineering the Mechanical Bendix Central Air Data Computer - Before the era of digital electronic computers, mechanical analog computers were f... - https://hackaday.com/2023/10/19/reverse-engineering-the-mechanical-bendix-central-air-data-computer/ #reverseengineering #airdatacomputer #retrocomputing #analogcomputer
Hackaday · Reverse-Engineering The Mechanical Bendix Central Air Data ComputerBefore 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…
A Modular Analogue Computer - We are all used to modular construction in the analogue synth world, to the extent... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/12/a-modular-analogue-computer/ #analogcomputer #computerhacks #analogue #analog
HackadayA Modular Analogue ComputerWe are all used to modular construction in the analogue synth world, to the extent that there’s an accepted standard for it in EuroRack. But the same techniques are just as useful wherever el…
Op-Amp Contest: Virtual Ball-in-a-Box Responds to Your Motions - With the incredible variety of projects submitted to our Op-Amp Contest, you’d alm... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/07/op-amp-contest-virtual-ball-in-a-box-responds-to-your-motions/ #analogcomputer #accelerometer #classichacks #miniaturecrt #ballinbox #contests #opamps #tl072
HackadayOp-Amp Contest: Virtual Ball-in-a-Box Responds To Your MotionsWith the incredible variety of projects submitted to our Op-Amp Contest, you’d almost forget that operational amplifiers were originally invented to perform mathematical operations, specifica…
Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight
(Also resistant to EMP)
https://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-globus-ink-mechanical-navigation.html
#SpaceNavigation #AtomicRockets #AnalogComputer
