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70: 57:, using wheel-and-disc mechanisms to perform the integration. It was one of the first advanced computing devices to be used operationally. The original machines could not add, but then it was noticed that if the two wheels of a rear differential are turned, the drive shaft will compute the average of the left and right wheels. Addition and subtraction are then achieved by using a simple gear ratio of 1:2; the gear ratio provides multiplication by two, and multiplying the average of two values by two gives their sum. Multiplication is just a special case of integration, namely integrating a 177:, 1928–1931, comprising six mechanical integrators. In the same year, Bush described this machine in a journal article as a "continuous integraph". When he published a further article on the device in 1931, he called it a "differential analyzer". In this article, Bush stated that " present device incorporates the same basic idea of interconnection of integrating units as did . In detail, however, there is little resemblance to the earlier model." According to his 1970 autobiography, Bush was "unaware of Kelvin’s work until after the first differential analyzer was operational." 27: 93: 283: 357: 829: 1265:
Constructed from about CAD$ 75 worth of Meccano, the analyzer was minimally modified from the original design but offered slight improvements to the electrical power distribution system, the design of the torque amplifiers, and the output pen support. Unfortunately, there is no information regarding what use, if any, the analyzer was put to or why Worsley built it
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Bush's differential analyser used mechanical integrators. The output of each integrator was intended to drive other parts of the machine; however, the output was too feeble to do so. Hazen recognized that a "torque amplifier", which had been invented in 1925 by Henry W. Nieman and which was intended
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research was suggested by Samuel H. Caldwell, of MIT's electrical engineering department, who had helped Vannevar Bush design recent analyzers. … Over six weeks during summer 1948, Worsley constructed a differential analyzer using Meccano…, based on Douglas Hartree and Arthur Porter's 1935 article.
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parts: this meant that the machine was less costly to build, and it proved "accurate enough for the solution of many scientific problems". A similar machine built by J.B. Bratt at Cambridge University in 1935 is now in the
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from the age of 10. Though Thomson called his device an "integrating machine", it is his description of the device, together with the additional publication in 1876 of two further descriptions by his younger brother,
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and has been displayed at the school's Museum of Science in Shinjuku Ward. Restored in 2014, it is one of only two still operational differential analyzers produced before the end of World War II.
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and in the basement of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania during the early 1940s. The latter was used extensively in the computation of
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was finished during 1938, based on the same principles as the MIT machine. This machine had 12 integrators, and was the largest analyser built for a period of four years.
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a mechanical differential analyser: it is included because the author clearly felt that the only way to introduce such an innovation was to describe it as an "
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The History of Science and Technology: A Browser's Guide to the Great Discoveries, Inventions, and the People who Made Them, from the Dawn of Time to Today
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It is estimated that "about 15 Meccano model Differential Analysers were built for serious work by scientists and researchers around the world".
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literature in 1973. However after extensive enquiries and literature searches over the last few years, no evidence can be found that the [
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The model differential analyser built at Manchester University in 1934 by Douglas Hartree and Arthur Porter made extensive use of
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at a cost of $ 125,000. By 1950, this machine had been joined by three more. The UCLA differential analyzer appeared in 1950's
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Meccano differential analyser in use at the Cambridge University Mathematics Laboratory, c. 1937. The person on the right is
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in Farnborough. One of the integrators from this proof of concept is on display in the History of Computing section of the
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built by Kelvin starting in 1872–3. On Lord Kelvin's advice, Thomson's integrating machine was later incorporated into a
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The first description of a device which could integrate differential equations of any order was published in 1876 by
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to allow workers to control heavy machinery, could be used to provide the necessary power. See: Stuart Bennett,
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Some Improvements in the Construction of a Small Scale Differential Analyser and a Review of Recent Applications
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Hartree, D. R.; Porter, Porter (1934–1935), "The construction and operation of a model differential analyser",
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A mathematical survey of computing devices with an appendix on an error analysis of differential analyzers
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Bush, V. (October 1931). "The differential analyzer. A new machine for solving differential equations".
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Includes summaries of "Meccano Differential Analyzers" and "Full Scale Differential Analyzers".
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However, the first widely practical general-purpose differential analyser was constructed by
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This article is about analogue differential analysers. For the digital implementation, see
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Professor Stephen Boyd at Stanford University provides a brief explanation of its working.
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Early computer-and-plotter dating to 1944, solving complex equations again 70 years later.
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was hired as a research assistant in 1936 to run the differential analyzer in Bush's lab.
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for the mechanical integration of differential equations and published details in 1914.
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Research on solutions for differential equations using mechanical devices, discounting
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built elsewhere had much greater promise and the project ceased. In 1947,
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In the United States, further differential analysers were built at the
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Holst, P.A. (Oct–Dec 1996). "Svein Rosseland and the Oslo analyzer".
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A differential analyser may have been used in the development of the
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Bush, Vannevar (1970). "Pieces of the Action". New York NY: Morrow.
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brought Bush's design to England, where he constructed his first "
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Thomson, James (1912). Joseph Larmor & James Thomson (ed.).
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One of the earliest practical uses of Thomson's concepts was a
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The differential analyser was eventually rendered obsolete by
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In Canada, a differential analyser was constructed at the
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Hartree and Porter wrote about the model in their paper
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The Differential Analyser Explained (updated July 2009)
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installed a differential analyser built for them by
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in London, alongside a complete Manchester machine.
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Index

Digital Differential Analyzer

Ball-and-disc integrator
tides
analogue computer
differential equations
integration
constant function

Kay McNulty
Moore School of Electrical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

NACA
Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
planimeters
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
differential equations
James Thomson
Belfast
Scotland
Lord Kelvin
tide-predicting machine
fire-control system
Arthur Pollen
Ernesto Pascal
integraphs
Harold Locke Hazen
Vannevar Bush

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