Mechanical Computer - Examples

Examples

  • The Antikythera mechanism, ca. 150 BC
  • Difference Engine, 1822 – Charles Babbage's mechanical device to calculate polynomials.
  • Analytical Engine, 1837 – A later Charles Babbage device that could be said to encapsulate most of the elements of modern computers.
  • Kerrison Predictor ("late 1930s" ?)
  • Curta calculator, 1948
  • Moniac, 1949 – An analog computer used to model or simulate the UK economy.
  • Voskhod Spacecraft "Globus" IMP navigation instrument, early 1960s

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