Greek divers found a shipwreck in 1900 with a 2,100-year-old ancient device so sophisticated that researchers have only ...

While the first computers were mechanical and famously ran on vacuum tubes, there were other schools of thought that introduced a different kind of computer – one that ran on water. In the 1930s ...

A device that processes infinitely varying signals, such as voltage or frequencies. A thermometer is a simple analog computer. As the temperature varies, the mercury moves correspondingly.

This analog computer can multiply, divide, square numbers, and find square roots. It has a maximum result of ten billion with an average precision of 2-3%. [Miroslav’s] build recreates something ...

Amidst the hullabaloo over its origin, which was taken as dating back to the Hellenistic era of 205 B.C, the “world’s first computer ” as it was referred to, embraced surprises galore for ...

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 ...