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1935 Meccano "Dam Busters" Computer Restored

Posted by kdawson on from the differential-analyzer dept.

rob1959 writes "A 1935 analog computer, built at Cambridge University and used to help plan the Dam Busters attacks on the Ruhr hydro dams in World War II, has been restored and put on display at Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology. The computer came to NZ around 1950 and was used, ironically, to build hydro dams there — and to calculate rabbit population numbers."

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  1. I thought the Dam Busters were American... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'd heard something about 'bouncing bombs', but I'd assumed they were ours. Why are the Brits talking about them as if they owned them? I never saw any film with them in, though so they couldn't have been very important.

    I guess they were little rubber things that danced around the place setting fire to everything. I wonder how they knocked down a dam? Perhaps if they got in the water intake?