MOST USEFUL
A “THINKING MACHINE”
OPERATED ELECTRICALLY.
LATEST AMERICAN INVENTION
IBy Cable —Press Assn. — Copyright.]
(Received 21, 10.5 am.) New York, Oct. 20. The department of electrical engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announces the invention of a “thinking machine” which is capable of solving mathematical problems too complex for the human brain. Dr. Vannover Bush, who, with a staff of research workers, tie it loped the machine, which is named the “Integraph,” said:— "It might be called an adding machine carried to the extreme in its design. Where workers in the business world ordinarily are satihed with addition, subtracting, multiplication and division, the engineer deals with curves
and graphs." Dr. Bush stated that the device, which is operated electrically, readily plots an answer to problems that matics, and requires only from eight minutes to a few hour.-, to make computations which would take in engineer from a month to a year to work out by ordinary methods. The foundation of the infograph is a watt hour meter of the Household type and from time to time it adds up the amount of power used and records the sum ou its dial.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 21 October 1927, Page 5
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