differential analyzer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of differential analyzer
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Among these is a new electronic "differential analyzer" at M.I.T.
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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