Ken ShirriffJan 21, 2023
The Globus INK (1967) is a remarkable piece of Soviet spacecraft equipment. Its rotating globe showed cosmonauts the position of their Soyuz spacecraft. An electromechanical analog computer, it used gears, cams, and differentials to compute the position. Let's look inside 🧵
Show threadBrandon Roberts
@kenshirriff This is really interesting, it would be really cool to see this thing working. Would it be loud?
Jan 21, 2023 at 10:06pmWeb
Show threadKen ShirriffJan 22, 2023
@bxroberts I think just click-click-click from the solenoids.