Analog computer
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An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computation machine that uses physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities behaving according to the mathematical pri
A page from the Bombardier's Information File (BIF) that describes the components and controls of the Norden bombsight, a highly sophisticated optical/mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bombs accurately
TR-10 desktop analog computer of the late 1960s and early 1970s
Analog computing machine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory c. 1949
Heathkit EC-1 educational analog computer
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A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations know
Analog computer
…or hydraulic quantities behaving according to the mathematical principles in question (analog signals) to model the problem being solved. In contrast, digital computers represent varying quantities symbolically and by discrete values of both time and amplitude (digital signals). Analog computers can have a very wide…
A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952
The Ishango bone, a bone tool dating back to prehistoric Africa
Charles Babbage
A diagram of a portion of Babbage's Difference engine