The Water Integrator was an early analog computer built in the Soviet Union in 1936. It functioned by careful manipulation of water through a room full of interconnected pipes and pumps. The level of water in various chambers (with precision to fractions of a millimeter) represented stored numbers, and the rate of flow between them represented mathematical operations. Amazingly, this machine was capable of solving non-homogeneous differential equations. the Water Integrator The copyright status of this vintage image is undetermined; it may still be copyrighted. ... An analog computer (American English) or analogue computer (British English) is a form of computer using electronic or mechanical phenomena to model the problem being solved by using one kind of physical quantity to represent another. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter), symbol mm is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ... In mathematics, a differential equation is an equation in which the derivatives of a function appear as variables. ...
The WaterIntegrator was an early analog computer built in the Soviet Union in 1936.
It functioned by careful manipulation of water through a room full of interconnected pipes and pumps.
The level of water in various chambers (with precision to fractions of a millimeter) represented stored numbers, and the rate of flow between them represented mathematical operations.
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