The differential analyser is a mechanical analogue computer designed to solve differential equations by integration, using wheel-and-disc mechanisms to...
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Meccano (redirect from Meccano Differential Analyser No. 2)
installed a differential analyser built for them by General Electric at a cost of $125,000. However, a "proof of concept" model of a differential analyser which...
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Look up analyser in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An analyser (British English) or analyzer (American English; see spelling differences) is a tool used...
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In computer graphics, a digital differential analyzer (DDA) is hardware or software used for interpolation of variables over an interval between start...
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learned first hand about his differential analyser. Immediately on his return to Manchester, he set about building his own analyser from Meccano. Seeing the...
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A differential is a gear train with three drive shafts that has the property that the rotational speed of one shaft is the average of the speeds of the...
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a proficient numerical analyst and an expert user of Hartree's differential analyser. Nicolson, along with other members of the research group worked...
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period at a particular location. The differential analyser, a mechanical analog computer designed to solve differential equations by integration, used wheel-and-disc...
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use is in power steering on automobiles. Another use is on the differential analyser, where it was used to increase the output torque of the otherwise...
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steps. Mechanical integrators were key elements in the mechanical differential analyser, used to solve practical physical problems. Mechanical integration...
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period at a particular location. The differential analyser, a mechanical analog computer designed to solve differential equations by integration, used wheel-and-disc...
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laboratory initially had many different computing devices, including a differential analyser. One day Leslie Comrie visited Wilkes and lent him a copy of John...
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A digital differential analyzer (DDA), also sometimes called a digital integrating computer, is a digital implementation of a differential analyzer. The...
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Ball-and-disk integrator (redirect from Harmonic Analyser)
The addition of the torque amplifier by Vannevar Bush led to the differential analysers of the 1930s and 1940s. The basic mechanism consists of two inputs...
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in Great Britain). The analyser had been lent to the University of Pennsylvania for the duration of the war. Using the analyser (invented by Vannevar Bush...
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Bouncing bomb "Upkeep" model. Studiensammlung Koblenz. A mechanical differential analyser analogue computer allegedly used during design of Barnes Wallis's...
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An automated analyser is a medical laboratory instrument designed to measure various substances and other characteristics in a number of biological samples...
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logic is a simple digital computer (more specifically, a digital differential analyser), implemented with mechanical wheels and levers instead of typical...
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French Alma mater École Polytechnique Known for Coriolis effect Differential analyser Integraph Kinetic energy Scientific career Fields Mathematics, Physics...
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Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematically rigorous framework for releasing statistical information about datasets while protecting the privacy of individual...
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state variable or variables evolve over time according to a differential equation. Early analyses reflected military interests, considering two actors—the...
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In healthcare, a differential diagnosis (DDx) is a method of analysis that distinguishes a particular disease or condition from others that present with...
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electrically-powered analogue computers, patented as the Argo Clock: a differential analyser which enabled big guns to engage with long-range targets when both...
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devices to perform the equations. These devices included a model "differential analyser," and the Mallock machine, described as "an electrical simultaneous...
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Since the advent of differential privacy, a number of systems supporting differentially private data analyses have been implemented and deployed. This...
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In mathematics, differential calculus is a subfield of calculus that studies the rates at which quantities change. It is one of the two traditional divisions...
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proof Computational algebraic geometry Computer algebra system Differential analyser Proof checker Model checker Symbolic-numeric computation Symbolic...
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University. The Mallock machine was contemporary with the mechanical differential analyser, which was also used at Cambridge during the late 1930s and 1940s...
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Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It...
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DEC Systems Pegasus ICT 1301 Project Harwell Dekatron Computer Differential Analyser HEC 1 Reconstructions Colossus Rebuild Manchester Baby Bombe Rebuild...
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