Analog Computers

    Analog Computer     

           Analog computer were pretty  famous in 40's war-II, Vietnam war even used in major wars such as world war and Korean war, but are now technically. An analog computer accepts inputs/physical quantities that very according to time such as electrical potential, fluid pressure or mechanical motion and applies to compute the operation of addition and subtraction, setting up an analog computer requires plenty of effort, it's usually set with initial conditions/values which can later be changed.

      The earliest analog computer was built in 1893 by Lord Kelvin some major milestones in its development process were.

     Inclusion of the harmonic analyzer in 1898, it had 80 components and was capable of generating sinusoidal  motion.

     Invention of the differential analyzer in 1930, it used mechanical integrators to solve differential equations and was a major break through for the technology.

     Analog systems were mainly used in simulating dynamic environments such as aircraft and nuclear process. But the analog computer locked the ability to store large quantities of data unlike their modern day digital co-counterpart. Also performing accurate arithmetic and integral operations in analog computers required costly hardware, which was infeasible.

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