Specifically they recommended the immediate renting of an IBM mechanical punched card-based calculator, building a simple differential analyzer, and the eventual purchase or construction of an electronic computer.
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The art of mechanical analog computing reached its zenith with the differential analyzer, built by H . L . Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT starting in 1927.
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While developing the MADIDDA, the design team came to realize that a digital differential analyzer could be run on a general-purpose digital computer through the use of an appropriate NCR.
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Soon after the MADIDDA's completion, Steele and his team realized that a general-purpose digital computer could also be used to as a differential analyzer through the use of an appropriate simulation language.
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UCLA's differential analyzer is shown briefly near the beginning of the film; it verifies the initial hand-made calculations confirming the coming destruction of the Earth . " There is no error ."
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Her thesis on " A Mathematical Survey of Computing Devices with an Appendix on Error Analysis of Differential Analyzers " was completed under the direction of Henry Wallman, a member of the famed MIT Radiation Laboratory.
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While at MIT, he worked with Dr . Vannevar Bush on one of the early calculating machines, the " differential analyzer, " which used a precisely honed system of shafts, gears, wheels and discs to solve equations in calculus.
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For his master's thesis, Bush invented and patented a " profile tracer ", a mapping device for assisting differential analyzer, an analog computer with some digital components that could solve differential equations with as many as 18 independent variables.
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These devices included a model " differential analyser, " and the Mallock machine, described as " an electrical simultaneous equation solver . " According to Croarken, the Ministry was also interested in the new arrival of a differential analyzer accommodating eight integrators.
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Despite having to give nine lectures a week, Frustrated with the tiresome and time-consuming process of calculation, he had his physics workshop superintendent, John Wylie, build him a small-scale differential analyzer, an analog computer that could solve differential equations, for just ?0.
