In 1950 they built the Doodson-Légé Machine, which runs under similar principles but with many more variables.
This one is operational and they ran it up for us. 🌊🖥️
We were there to get a guided tour of their old tide calculators - mechanical analogue computers that were used to predict tide heights around the world.
This is the Roberts-Légé Machine, built in 1908. It was used to predict the tides for the D-Day landings (among many other things)
A New Study Shakes Up Our Understanding of the World’s First Analog Computer
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