internet The Soyuz mechanical navigation computer

[Donkeyd]

A piece of art

 

[Dr Deacon]

All clockwork, cams and timers. Same technology as the PLCs (Programmable Logic Units) of the 1950s and 1960s that controlled the operations of petroleum refineries for decades until digital automation took over. Extremely precise and accurate regardless.

 

[Dr Deacon]

Any older and it would contain valves

 

[DokraOwl]

I was watching a video on the the guidance system of the V2 rocket. It was a small analogue computer which could guide the rocket from anywhere in Western Europe to the edge of space and then hit London. This was space age technology at a time when most millitary logistics was still carried out with horse-drawn carriages. It's no wonder the subsequent Cold War was built on this technology, it was so futuristic and so lethal, and yet ironically it would end up becoming the technology we rely on for typical everyday things now. Satellites, GPS, microwaves, modern computers and cell phones, etc. All of the foundational principles came from this cutting edge military technology.

 

[Harumph]

Oh look, more stolen soviet technology!

 

[Htos1av]

An electronic version of the Antikythera mechanism that we have used since WWII.

 

[Htos1av]

Any older and it would contain valves

I LEARNED electronics on them, and today are MONSTER computer grade reference amps on control monitors. Got mine in 1986.

 

[Shaitan Al Tawakoni]

That's amazing. It's beautiful.

 

[Elmondo]

A piece of art

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I just got a tech porn boner. That is very cool.