The World's Largest Computer in 1951

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In summary, the ENIAC was a massive machine weighing 30 tons, occupying 1,000 square feet of floor space, and containing over 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 6,000 switches, and 18,000 vacuum tubes. It required 150 kilowatts of power to run, which was enough to light a small town. The final machine was less powerful than a $5 pocket calculator. The Russian Ekranoplan, also known as the Caspian Sea Monster, was a ground effect vehicle that could travel over 400 km/h and weighed 540 tons fully loaded. It was used as a high-speed military transport and could transport over 100 tonnes of cargo. The
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wolram said:
Well if you get the temperature wrong in this process, the produce from this apparatus, "the thing i want", will make your mind cloudy.
Sounds like distilling the water out of some kind of alcoholic brew, instead of distilling the alcohol out.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Sounds like distilling the water out of some kind of alcoholic brew, instead of distilling the alcohol out.
Close.
and the "thing i whant is" ?
 
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wolram said:
and the "thing i whant is" ?
Scotch whiskey? Guiness stout? Champagne?
 
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Think about temperature, one gives water, one gives a headache, i want the
apparatus.
 
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A still...?
 
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I think Moonbear still has a question due.

:biggrin:
 
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I can't believe there was one that i knew and i wasnt online to get it!
 
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Danger said:
Sorry about the insult. You're naturally the first Brit that comes to mind, and that 'wanker' gag just wouldn't have sounded right in reference to a Yank. :biggrin:


No worries, I'm still happy that we are allowed to say "wanker" in here without Evo telling us off!
 
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brewnog said:
No worries, I'm still happy that we are allowed to say "wanker" in here without Evo telling us off!
She may not know what it means. It's not used here, in the US. It took me a while to work out a translation.
 
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silly tossars.
 
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Andy said:
silly tossars.
Don't start! Could take me months to figure out what "tossars" are!
 
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The results of this experiment were so conclusive that the last doubters of atomic theory were forced to surrender. What was the experiment?
 
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A still...?

correct.
 
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brewnog said:
No worries, I'm still happy that we are allowed to say "wanker" in here without Evo telling us off!
That's nuthin'; I seem to remember you getting away with 'twat'.

zoobyshoe said:
The results of this experiment were so conclusive that the last doubters of atomic theory were forced to surrender. What was the experiment?
Hiroshima?
 
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Danger said:
Hiroshima?
Negatory..
 
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Rutherford and his gold foil?

I'm just saying that because I had an exam in his lecture hall the other day.
 
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brewnog said:
Rutherford and his gold foil?

I'm just saying that because I had an exam in his lecture hall the other day.
Good reason. Wrong experiment.
 
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Curie's radium salts and film discovery?
 
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Danger said:
Curie's radium salts and film discovery?
No. But I'd say everyone's in the right, very general, ballpark.
 
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!911 Rutherford used alpha particle beam to test for atomic structure
he termed the center of the atom, nucleus.
 
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wolram said:
!911 Rutherford used alpha particle beam to test for atomic structure
he termed the center of the atom, nucleus.
Brewnog already guessed Rutherford.

You guys are thinking too positively. Think negative.
 
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Thomson and his CRT?
 
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You guys are thinking too positively. Think negative.

Ok, there is no way i can crack this one.
 
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brewnog said:
Thomson and his CRT?
Nope. Still right ball park.
 
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Chadwick and his cloud chambers?
 
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Ions were first theorized by Michael Faraday around 1830, to describe the portions of molecules that travel either to an anode or to a cathode.
 
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brewnog said:
Chadwick and his cloud chambers?
No.
wolram said:
Ions were first theorized by Michael Faraday around 1830, to describe the portions of molecules that travel either to an anode or to a cathode.
Also no.
 
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The experiment involved a short focus telescope.
 
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William Crooke's vacuum tubes?
 
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brewnog said:
William Crooke's vacuum tubes?
No. The experiment also involved an electric field.
 
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Millikan's Oil Drop!
 
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brewnog said:
Millikan's Oil Drop!
Indeed!
 
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Woo! Throw enough cack around and some of it's bound to stick!


Ok, I've almost got a good clue coming up...
 
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brewnog said:
Woo! Throw enough cack around and some of it's bound to stick!


Ok, I've almost got a good clue coming up...
I thought that was your clue.
 
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Danger said:
I thought that was your clue.

Nah, that would have been too easy. (Artman's bedroom again, I believe).

Ok.

What is shown in the picture?

http://personalpages.umist.ac.uk/student/E.Smith-2/whatisthis.jpg
 
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