A thermometer is a simple analog computer. As the temperature varies, the mercury moves correspondingly. A slide rule is another example. Although special-purpose, complex analog computers are ...

The math behind the tidal movement is so complex that some of the earliest analog computers were built specifically to perform tide calculations. Sir William Thomson (better known as Lord Kelvin ...

For example, what would you think goes into an analog computer? Of course, a “real” analog computer has opamps that can do logarithms, square roots, multiply, and divide. But would it surprise ...

W hen Nobel laureate Richard Feynman first suggested the idea of quantum computers, he proposed they might perform the kind ...

Pace TR-48 Analogue Computer, by Electronic Associates Inc (EAI), United States, 1960-1965. Designed to work on a 'desk top', this model was used by Brunel University, London, until 1989. Pace TR-48 ...

In the 1930s, the Russian scientist Vladimir Lukyanov built an analog computer known as the "Water Integrator" or "Lukyanov's Integrator." This computer was built to solve partial differential ...

IN practically all analogue computer work there seems to arise the problem of multiplying two time-varying voltages. There are quite a number of methods of performing this multiplication and some ...

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At the beginning of the 20th century, when the transistor had not yet been invented, computers were analogue and made up of large mechanical gears. They were nothing like the electronic equipment ...