analogue computer in a sentence
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- The " Frontlash " name was a play on words, originally used in this context by President Lyndon B . Johnson in 1964 ( it had previously been used in analogue computer construction and similar ).
- In a typical World War II British ship the fire control system connected the individual gun turrets to the director tower ( where the sighting instruments were ) and the analogue computer in the heart of the ship.
- In a typical World War II British ship the fire control system connected the individual gun turrets to the director tower ( where the sighting instruments were located ) and the analogue computer in the heart of the ship.
- In 1944 Bell Labs started delivery of an anti-aircraft predictor fire-control system based around an analogue computer ( supplanting the previous electro-mechanical Kerrison Predictor ) just in time for use in this campaign.
- After World War II predictors changed from being electro-mechanical analogue computers to digital computers, but by this time heavy anti-aircraft guns had been replaced by missiles, but electronics enabled smaller guns to adopt fully automated laying.
- To provide for the determination of time from the observed moons'positions, a Jovilabe was offered & mdash; this was an analogue computer that calculated time from the positions and that got its name from its similarities to an astrolabe.
- On Lord Kelvin's advice, Thomson's integrating machine was later incorporated into a fire-control system for naval gunnery being developed by Arthur Pollen, resulting in an electrically driven, mechanical analogue computer, which was completed by about 1912.
- Klemperer was engaged in the development of airships or zeppelins, both in Germany and the US, high altitude ballons, specialized optics, a high-speed wide-angle cine-camera, analogue computers, equipment for data processing and flight simulators.
- During and after World War II, the EMI Laboratories in Hayes, Hillingdon developed radar equipment ( including the receiver section of the British Army's GL-II anti-aircraft fire-control radar ), microwave devices such as the guided missiles employing analogue computers.
- It initially started in the production of analogue computers to control flight simulators, then moved to produce minicomputers ( " R range " ), departmental Unix Servers and microcomputers ( " teleputers " ), specialising in data capture, enterprise accounting for local government and videotex systems.