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The top plane of the first "Automatic Totalisator," designed by George Julius (1913). It was a mechanical computer designed for calculating and displaying bets at horse races. There are more really awesome pictures of it, at this link: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/SecondFloor/Totalisators/FirstJulius/FirstJuliusMain.php#tickets
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absolutely amazing! I love these massively complex analog computing devices
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Me toooooo. To me, this is more impressive than any digital computer could ever be. It's insane to imagine figuring out how to translate the physical movements into calculations.
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absolutely ! mind boggling to think of and engineer and then to build it is monumental. I'm not sure you could find craftsmen who could actually build it today.
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