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"RH Nigl / GH Diel" |
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06 Dec 2007 05:34:48 PM |
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Experimental Physics |
One of my interests over the past fifty-plus years has been analog computers
.... 1954, that's when I designed my first computer. I was ten years old.
This is what I did.
On a plywood board I placed half-a-dozen, or so, 'zee' shaped pieces of bent
Aluminum strips in an electrical series powered by a D-cell battery, or
maybe two, connected at the end of the series to single screw-in flashlight
lamp (I think I stole it from one of my Dad's flashlights) ... there were,
maybe, six switches in the series and one-of-each. Depressing the switch
assembly contact (and held down), changed the amount of current sent to the
lamp. Select one switch, the lamp glowed brightly, select all, the lamp
dimmed. Am I correct in the description of the phenomena, physically, so
far?
RHN
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| User: "RH Nigl / GH Diel" |
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| Title: Re: Experimental Physics |
07 Dec 2007 06:20:25 AM |
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"RH Nigl / GH Diel" <rhnigl@exoptica.com> wrote in message
news:K8-dnVngO5WgGsXanZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@adelphia.com...
One of my interests over the past fifty-plus years has been analog
computers ... 1954, that's when I designed my first computer. I was ten
years old. This is what I did.
On a plywood board I placed half-a-dozen, or so, 'zee' shaped pieces of
bent Aluminum strips in an electrical series powered by a D-cell battery,
or maybe two, connected at the end of the series to single screw-in
flashlight lamp (I think I stole it from one of my Dad's flashlights) ...
there were, maybe, six switches in the series and one-of-each. Depressing
the switch assembly contact (and held down), changed the amount of current
sent to the lamp. Select one switch, the lamp glowed brightly, select all,
the lamp dimmed. Am I correct in the description of the phenomena,
physically, so far?
RHN
!!!
This is the most illogical post my nephew has ever constructed--I have no
idea what he is talking about. When he wakes up, I'll give him a couple of
dope slaps...sorry he wasted your bandwidth.
Artists, jeeezus!!
GHD
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Experimental Physics |
07 Dec 2007 09:41:17 AM |
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On 7 d=E9c, 07:20, "RH Nigl / GH Diel" <rhn...@exoptica.com> wrote:
"RH Nigl / GH Diel" <rhn...@exoptica.com> wrote in messagenews:K8-dnVngO5W=
gGsXanZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@adelphia.com...
One of my interests over the past fifty-plus years has been analog
computers ... 1954, that's when I designed my first computer. I was ten
years old. This is what I did.
On a plywood board I placed half-a-dozen, or so, 'zee' shaped pieces of
bent Aluminum strips in an electrical series powered by a D-cell battery=
,
or maybe two, connected at the end of the series to single screw-in
flashlight lamp (I think I stole it from one of my Dad's flashlights) ..=
..
there were, maybe, six switches in the series and one-of-each. Depressin=
g
the switch assembly contact (and held down), changed the amount of curre=
nt
sent to the lamp. Select one switch, the lamp glowed brightly, select al=
l,
the lamp dimmed. Am I correct in the description of the phenomena,
physically, so far?
RHN
!!!
This is the most illogical post my nephew has ever constructed--I have no
idea what he is talking about. When he wakes up, I'll give him a couple of=
dope slaps...sorry he wasted your bandwidth.
Artists, jeeezus!!
GHD
Don't chide him. He may be just about ready to work on neural
networks.
Keep us posted ;-)
Andr=E9 Michaud
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| User: "RH Nigl / GH Diel" |
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| Title: Re: Experimental Physics |
06 Dec 2007 06:22:41 PM |
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"RH Nigl / GH Diel" <rhnigl@exoptica.com> wrote in message
news:K8-dnVngO5WgGsXanZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@adelphia.com...
One of my interests over the past fifty-plus years has been analog
computers ... 1954, that's when I designed my first computer. I was ten
years old. This is what I did.
On a plywood board I placed half-a-dozen, or so, 'zee' shaped pieces of
bent Aluminum strips in an electrical series powered by a D-cell battery,
or maybe two, connected at the end of the series to single screw-in
flashlight lamp (I think I stole it from one of my Dad's flashlights) ...
there were, maybe, six switches in the series and one-of-each. Depressing
the switch assembly contact (and held down), changed the amount of current
sent to the lamp. Select one switch, the lamp glowed brightly, select all,
the lamp dimmed. Am I correct in the description of the phenomena,
physically, so far?
RHN
Imgine this: A simple apparatus, consisting of two circular glass disks
(there could be more), darkened, almost black, almost opaque, except for a
single hole, revealing that, which is beneath, a initial state a stasis--one
glass disk is coincident over the static disk (thus, a hierarchy); however,
the holes of each disk could possibly align in a statistical calculus,
resulting also in a propability stasis; and, in real time, most probably,
does
(Stasis: A state of stability, in which all forces are equal and opposing,
therefore they cancel out each other.)
RHN
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| User: "Randy Poe" |
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| Title: Re: Experimental Physics |
07 Dec 2007 10:45:46 AM |
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On Dec 6, 6:34 pm, "RH Nigl / GH Diel" <rhn...@exoptica.com> wrote:
One of my interests over the past fifty-plus years has been analog computers
... 1954, that's when I designed my first computer. I was ten years old.
This is what I did.
On a plywood board I placed half-a-dozen, or so, 'zee' shaped pieces of bent
Aluminum strips in an electrical series powered by a D-cell battery, or
maybe two, connected at the end of the series to single screw-in flashlight
lamp (I think I stole it from one of my Dad's flashlights) ... there were,
maybe, six switches in the series and one-of-each. Depressing the switch
assembly contact (and held down), changed the amount of current sent to the
lamp. Select one switch, the lamp glowed brightly, select all, the lamp
dimmed. Am I correct in the description of the phenomena, physically, so
far?
Unclear from your description of the circuit where these switches
are. It sounds from the description of the lamp's behavior
that the switches controlled the number of resistors in
series with the lamp.
- Randy
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| User: "Benj" |
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| Title: Re: Experimental Physics |
07 Dec 2007 12:16:54 PM |
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On Dec 6, 6:34 pm, "RH Nigl / GH Diel" <rhn...@exoptica.com> wrote:
One of my interests over the past fifty-plus years has been analog computers
... 1954, that's when I designed my first computer. I was ten years old.
This is what I did.
Yes. I remember this! I remember the big "race" as to which kind of
computer was going to "win" Analog or Digital?
Hey, which kind finally won that "race"?
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| User: "RH Nigl / GH Diel" |
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| Title: Re: Experimental Physics |
07 Dec 2007 03:26:47 PM |
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"Benj" <bjacoby@iwaynet.net> wrote in message
news:a3e877cc-cb34-4a24-9039-fe21952b17e1@w34g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
On Dec 6, 6:34 pm, "RH Nigl / GH Diel" <rhn...@exoptica.com> wrote:
One of my interests over the past fifty-plus years has been analog
computers
... 1954, that's when I designed my first computer. I was ten years old.
This is what I did.
Yes. I remember this! I remember the big "race" as to which kind of
computer was going to "win" Analog or Digital?
Hey, which kind finally won that "race"?
See cross post at alt.sci.physics
Thanks,
RHN
"I'm sleepy now, I think I'll go to bed, just for a short while. Wait, did I
say 'I think I'm sleepy?"
From the BETH Trilogy, A Story of Travel and Colonization, by G. H. Diel
Google "G H Diel"
(Hah! Got even!)
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| User: "Andy Resnick" |
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| Title: Re: Experimental Physics |
10 Dec 2007 07:46:58 AM |
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RH Nigl / GH Diel wrote:
One of my interests over the past fifty-plus years has been analog computers
... 1954, that's when I designed my first computer. I was ten years old.
This is what I did.
On a plywood board I placed half-a-dozen, or so, 'zee' shaped pieces of bent
Aluminum strips in an electrical series powered by a D-cell battery, or
maybe two, connected at the end of the series to single screw-in flashlight
lamp (I think I stole it from one of my Dad's flashlights) ... there were,
maybe, six switches in the series and one-of-each. Depressing the switch
assembly contact (and held down), changed the amount of current sent to the
lamp. Select one switch, the lamp glowed brightly, select all, the lamp
dimmed. Am I correct in the description of the phenomena, physically, so
far?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Computer-Theory-Build-A-Digital-Computer-1968-Rare_W0QQitemZ310005926104QQihZ021QQcategoryZ3521QQcmdZViewItem
It's a good book. My high-school history project.
--
Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University
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| User: "Bob Cain" |
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| Title: Re: Experimental Physics |
10 Dec 2007 09:07:38 PM |
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Andy Resnick wrote:
RH Nigl / GH Diel wrote:
One of my interests over the past fifty-plus years has been analog
computers ... 1954, that's when I designed my first computer. I was
ten years old. This is what I did.
On a plywood board I placed half-a-dozen, or so, 'zee' shaped pieces
of bent Aluminum strips in an electrical series powered by a D-cell
battery, or maybe two, connected at the end of the series to single
screw-in flashlight lamp (I think I stole it from one of my Dad's
flashlights) ... there were, maybe, six switches in the series and
one-of-each. Depressing the switch assembly contact (and held down),
changed the amount of current sent to the lamp. Select one switch, the
lamp glowed brightly, select all, the lamp dimmed. Am I correct in the
description of the phenomena, physically, so far?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Computer-Theory-Build-A-Digital-Computer-1968-Rare_W0QQitemZ310005926104QQihZ021QQcategoryZ3521QQcmdZViewItem
It's a good book. My high-school history project.
For some reason this reminds me that the operational amplifier, an ubiquitous
component known and loved by us E.E.s, was the primary fruit of analog computer
development.
Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."
A. Einstein
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