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Restored Phillips Machine, 1993

from LSE Library

• Philip Menke said:

  explanation

• Roadgoer said:

  Very cool. Thanks for sharing these great photographs. "A sensation when it was unveiled at the London School of Economics in 1949, the Phillips machine used hydraulics to model the workings of the British economy ..." www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/08/bankofenglandgove... "The MONIAC (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer) also known as the Phillips Hydraulic Computer and the Financephalograph, was created in 1949 by the New Zealand economist Bill Phillips to model the national economic processes of the United Kingdom, while Phillips was a student at the London School of Economics (LSE), The MONIAC was an analogue computer which used fluidic logic to model the workings of an economy." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer

• SueD8 said:

  A renovated version of the MONIAC is in the Science Museum in London - I think it is part of the computing galleries.

• JJ_Dredd said:

  That is superb!