Water computer simulated economy 70 years ago Bashny.Net

Once the trees were higher, grass - green, while the computer is running on the water. MONIAC, built in 1949, analyzed the economic data, using hydraulics. Water flowed through the pipes and tanks, allowing to make predictions in the economy. A seven-foot machine Руба Goldberg seemed a strange way to do the calculations in this area, but, as explained by historian Doron Sveyd student Bill Philip wanted to visualize the market, and in those days monitors personal computers might not.





Various containers are institutions of the economy such as banks, consumer spending, savings, taxes, foreign holdings and others. As объясняет Macrobius, if you find that the citizens too much money - a vessel filled with - you can extend the valve and simulate the fall in stock prices, as if encouraging investment.

There were built 14 cars. Who can run two of them: one is located in the University of Cambridge, the second - in the Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of New Zealand. In the video below - Cambridge Professor Allan Macrobius shows the car in 2004.









The site of the University of Cambridge, you can see the lecture detailing the principles of Moniac. There is also a software simulation computer.



MONIAC ​​water was not the first computer. In 1936 the Soviet inventor Vladimir Lukyanov presented gidrointegrator. Gidrointegrator Lukyanov was a system of tubes with water, allow to solve differential equations with partial derivatives. Details of water computers read in a magazine Science and Life .







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