Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers
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Uploaded 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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Top Comments
Jeremy Abel 7 months ago
Oh man, did they make any more videos like this? I could watch this stuff all day.
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Goldman Sacks 4 months ago
This video is simply great, analog precision is the only endless precision, even today
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All Comments (42)
Junaid Akbar 1 week ago
didn't get to see it all working together :'(
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KingXArthur 3 weeks ago
But can it run Crysis?
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ChronosTimeGod 1 month ago
but with horrible accuracy
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swamiworldtraveler 1 month ago
P.S. I run a weekly math/philosophy group called the 'Wing Circle'. The topic of our next meeting is 'mechanical calculators/computers'. Check out our web presence. Join if you are interested. Tnx for your consideration.
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swamiworldtraveler 1 month ago
AWESOME!
Interesting use of the word "computer". This device does not seem to have the basic components of a computer. Perhaps it would be better described as a "calculator". Dial in the numbers (inputs), and the mechanism calculates the predetermined equations, yielding the output(s). Pretty cool, whatever one chooses to call it!
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vincent7520 2 months ago
A "computer" at that time was a huge sophisticated slide rule. Or or hundreds of slide rules working together
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vincent7520 2 months ago
How clear it is… very didactic. Could still be shown to young students at school …
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shaider1982 2 months ago
It's weird now to think of computers as having gears and other mechanical parts.
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iSolarSunrise 2 months ago
This is the funniest and the most awesome video I've ever seen on "computers".
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shaider1982 3 months ago
I bet those gears are precision ones and installed with virtually no backlash.
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