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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haha, of course, H.G. Wells publications. The radio broadcast in 1938 that fooled so many people into thinking they were under attack by aliens :smile:
 
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It weighs over 200 tonnes.

It was completed over a decade ago

It is built on an island

Your hint is, swastika...

Shouldn't be too hard...good luck :smile:
 
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manhattan project?
 
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Smurf said:
manhattan project?

no...interesting suggestion though...
 
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hmmm, well I havn't a clue so I'm shooting in the dark here but does it have something to do with a big canon and the english channel?
 
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Smurf said:
hmmm, well I havn't a clue so I'm shooting in the dark here but does it have something to do with a big canon and the english channel?

sorry...

I don't want to give you any more hints...you have more than enough to figure it out... :smile:
 
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On July 4, 1889 the American community in Paris offered the French people
a gift of a bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty, 1/4 scale,
about 35 feet high. It still stands now, on Ile des Cygnes an island in the
Seine River, next to the Pont de Grenelle, a bridge crossing the Seine,
1.5 km downstrean (South) of the Eiffel Tower.

?
 
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ooooooooooo
 
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wolram said:
On July 4, 1889 the American community in Paris offered the French people
a gift of a bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty, 1/4 scale,
about 35 feet high. It still stands now, on Ile des Cygnes an island in the
Seine River, next to the Pont de Grenelle, a bridge crossing the Seine,
1.5 km downstrean (South) of the Eiffel Tower.

?


Let me refine some of my clues a bit...

It was over completed over a decade ago and less than 20 yrs ago.

It is more than 200 tonnes and less then 250 tonnes...

Probably the most important clue is the swastika...
 
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I've run it through google and not really found anything that looks right. Maybe one more little clue?
 
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TheStatutoryApe said:
I've run it through google and not really found anything that looks right. Maybe one more little clue?

The swastika I'm talking about is not the same as the Nazi swastika...
 
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Couple more:

The island is pretty small...I had to take a subway to get there, and I was nowhere near the United States...
 
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Townsend said:
The swastika I'm talking about is not the same as the Nazi swastika...

I guessed that, the swastika has lots of meanings, it relates to Budda also.
 
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wolram said:
I guessed that, the swastika has lots of meanings, it relates to Budda also.

...go from there...
 
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Derived from "Hard Lightning" , the people are cheese on toast ?
 
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wolram said:
I guessed that, the swastika has lots of meanings, it relates to Budda also.
Damn, I knew that one off the top of my head! Should have been PFing more!
 
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Mk said:
Damn, I knew that one off the top of my head! Should have been PFing more!

Yep, it took me ages and several wrong turns, i suppose a certain lady would
have also solved it a lot quicker.
 
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wolram said:
Derived from "Hard Lightning" , the people are cheese on toast ?

Something to do with the Welsh... And Arthur's sword...
 
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Perhaps the village of Caledfwlch (an old name for his sword)
 
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matthyaouw said:
Something to do with the Welsh... And Arthur's sword...

And it is ?
 
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Caledfwlch/Caladbolg/Caledbwlch?
 
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matthyaouw said:
Caledfwlch/Caladbolg/Caledbwlch?
:biggrin: , your shot.
 
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I have to go, so someone else can take my turn.
 
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Any one have one ?
 
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wolram said:
Derived from "Hard Lightning" , the people are cheese on toast ?
Well, of course people are servable as cheese on toast if they get zapped in the butt by a lightning stroke; but somehow, I am unable to progress further..
 
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Upon insertion, the handle was turned, causing the spoon-shaped lobes to slowly separate.

Hot fruit? ouch.
 
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wolram said:
Upon insertion, the handle was turned, causing the spoon-shaped lobes to slowly separate.

Oh no, Arildno is going to have something inappropriate to say about this! :wink:
 
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matthyaouw said:
Oh no, Arildno is going to have something inappropriate to say about this! :wink:
:smile: :smile: you got it all ready ?
 
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wolram said:
Upon insertion, the handle was turned, causing the spoon-shaped lobes to slowly separate.

Hot fruit? ouch.
Really; they are called valves, not lobes; besides, they are not spoon-shaped.
I have but one option, namely to issue the:

Concupiscence Alert!
 
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wolram said:
Upon insertion, the handle was turned, causing the spoon-shaped lobes to slowly separate.

Hot fruit? ouch.

Arildno if you have the answer put up if not---------
 
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Perhaps I don't have the answer.
What is it?
 
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arildno said:
Perhaps I don't have the answer.
What is it?

It is your job to find out, if you are able to :rolleyes:
 
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wolram said:
Upon insertion, the handle was turned, causing the spoon-shaped lobes to slowly separate.

Hot fruit? ouch.

the clue once again. :biggrin:
 

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