While the first computers were mechanical and famously ... The Russian scientist Vladimir Lukyanov built an analog computer in the 1930s that was called the "Water Integrator" or the "Lukyanov's ...

Antikythera mechanism is believed to be the world's oldest computer. The mechanism has been described as an astronomical calculator as well as the world's first analogue computer. It is made of ...

This analog computer can multiply ... To multiply a number you set the needles on the first two knobs to the numbers on which you are operating. To find the result turn the third knob until ...

The analog computer of decades-gone-by is something many of us younger engineers never got the chance to experience first hand. It’s pretty much a case of reading about them on these fine pages ...

History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools In this section will be examined some calculating tools, used by mankind in the past 2000 years. Of course we will start with the abacus, the most ...