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MONIAC is an analogue computer with water as its medium, designed to simulate a national economy for students. Invented in 1949 by the New Zealand economist [WIlliam Phillips], ...
There was a time when computers ran on water. No, really. They did. Check out the video above, a recent demonstration of a machine called the MONIAC, originally built in 1949. The MONIAC---short ...
This Computer From 1949 Runs on Water. Computers at the time didn’t have displays; one economics student created a visualization using water-filled tanks and tubes ...
Infosys_Logo. Infosys and The Financial Times have taken economist Bill Phillips' original invention, a hydraulic analog computer created in 1949 that used water to model and study economic ...
The Moniac was donated to the Science Museum in London in the 1980s, where it has sat somewhat neglected in the computer section. Now it is to be resurrected as one of 21 exhibits in the museum ...
“When Dr Phillips constructed the Moniac it was the most advanced economic computer in the world.” In 1949, the Moniac was a ground-breaking mechanism for modelling macro-economics.
A digital twin of the landmark economic simulator 'The Moniac', the FT Money Machine leverages Apple Vision Pro to deliver an immersive and interactive experience making economics education more ...
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