COMPUTER BUFFS!!! - 1935 Time Mag featuring the 3 Ton Brain

COMPUTER BUFFS!!! - 1935 Time Mag featuring the 3 Ton Brain Introduction

PRICED TO MOVE!!! WAS $20.00 - NOW ONLY $10.00!!! Time Magazine March 18, 1935 | Vol. XXV No. 11 Science: Three-Ton Brain To have the public's first look at the biggest and keenest mechanical brain in the world, a total of 6.000 persons one day last week trooped down into a basement of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia. There they found a new differential analyzer even more formidable than its name—a maze of delicate mechanisms united in a 28-ft. monster weighing three tons (see cut). They saw innumerable gears mesh silently, shafting turn on jeweled bearings, operators carefully adjust hand controls; they heard five small motors tranquilly.. To continue reading: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,748558,00.html . LRBS - 001