"But take away the fancy GPS shells and the AGS, and its digital fire control system are no more accurate than mechanical analog technology that is nearly a century old." Yeah, and take away the fancy ...

So my buddy analog guru Eric Schlaepfer found a neat series of US Navy videos about their fire-control computers used before tubes and op-amps did the calculations. Mechanical engineers are sure to ...

This component has an aluminum frame and three gears on top. It appears to have two similar mechanisms on the inside – each includes a shaft, a screw with linkages, and a cylinder turned by rotating a ...

Today, most of what we think of as a computer uses digital technology. But that wasn’t always the case. From slide rules to mechanical fire solution computers to electronic analog computers, there ...

At one time a scientist or engineer trying to solve a tough problem with electronic computation had the choice of an analog computer, a digital computer, or both together in a hybrid configuration.

Very well researched and educational article - just by reading and watching the embedded clips I now know how a mechanical computer works and also a bit about fire control. I visited the HMS Belfast ...