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Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers

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Uploaded by on Jul 13, 2011

A 1953 training film for a mechanical fire control computer aboard Navy Ships. Amazing how problems of mathematical computation were solved so elegantly in "permanent" mechanical form, before microprocessors became inexpensive and commonplace.

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  • I think this video is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I think we lost something when we Obscured all that cool math behind binary ones and zeros. I think I will make my kids watch this ASAP..

  • Pay attention boys and girls, this is how the guns of Battlestations Pacific find their targets without your help from Battlestations Midway. Also, see the gunnery problem taken up to eleven from this point in this anime Last Exile - 2 - Lut Vanship (SUB) 9:06

  • Is the output sent to electric motors that steer the guns or does some guy read the dials and talk to the gunners?

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