differential analyzer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of differential analyzer
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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DAG SPICER: Well, a differential analyzer was a, originally quite a large, almost room-sized mechanical contraption…And it was really about gears and wheels and shafts and pulleys.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 7, 2022
After the war, Johnny threw himself into developing new computers that used a fraction of the time required by the punch card machines or the differential analyzer.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 7, 2022
Among these is a new electronic "differential analyzer" at M.I.T.
From Time Magazine Archive
On campus, he later developed the differential analyzer, an ancestor of the modern computer, then resigned as engineering dean in 1938 to head Washington, D.C.'s Carnegie Institution, a leading research organization.
From Time Magazine Archive
Trained as an electrical engineer, in the 1920s he had invented a machine known as a differential analyzer: an analog computer whose digital offspring would dominate the information age.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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