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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Come on, we need another clue.
 
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Ivory soap
 
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hypatia said:
Ivory soap
w00t! That HAS to be it.

Ivory is a bar soap which is one of the best-known products of the Procter & Gamble Company. It is whipped with air in its production so that it floats in water. The soap was made to float only after a worker accidentally left the mixing machine on for too long. The company decided to use the supposedly ruined material and hoped that the buying public wouldn't notice, but after they got so many fan letters, they decided to switch to the new recipe!
 
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yes, hypatia
 
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It looks like a lumbering combine harvester, made to harvest clouds.
 
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is that your clue? it makes no sense
 
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it has a wing
 
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hypatia said:
It looks like a lumbering combine harvester, made to harvest clouds.

I think it is that machine that shakes trees to gather ?? it has a net like thing
that folds around the tree to catch ?

I can not remember :blushing:
 
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Olive picker machine ??
 
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Cloud harvester... has a wing...

I remember well the fog harvesters used in the mountains of Nepal (?? I forget where, somewhere high altitude) they're HUGE but have no wings.
 
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it has a fan
 
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It sounds like a Winnowing machine but they are usually staitonary, i know
they have a fan.
 
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It was in a 2004 issue of The New York Times Magazine
 
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hypatia said:
It was in a 2004 issue of The New York Times Magazine

Is the sail a ,sail board, and the wing some thing to direct the grain ?
 
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I have made this one really tough so suffer :smile:

You will not be able to push this car made by a russian bell maker, is that
true or just sour grapes ??
 
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I though it would be to hard :smile:
 
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Swedish designer Monica Förster said she often stares at clouds outside her airplane window and wonders what it would be like to step inside one. After learning that cumulus clouds form in the morning, then dissipate at night, she decided to create a nylon "cloud" that could serve as a quiet meeting space by day and collapse at night. Förster's Cloud is 8 ft. tall and 18 ft. long. A fan inside its carrying case inflates it in 3 min. It weighs 33 lbs.

In 2004 Time Magazine.
 
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I got an idea... how about teams competing? That would be interesting, we could use telephone, PMs and instant messaging to communicate between teams, and stuff and awesome!
 
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Mk said:
I got an idea... how about teams competing? That would be interesting, we could use telephone, PMs and instant messaging to communicate between teams, and stuff and awesome!

Erm, MK there is only three or four of us :rolleyes: There seems to be a dearth
of brains in this forum :cool:
 
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Of course after the draft is set in play, there will be hundreds... thousands... millions! MOO HOO HAHAHAHAH :devil:
 
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Ok, I need one small tiny hint. :frown:

Does it have to do with Schilovsky?
 
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Mk said:
Ok, I need one small tiny hint. :frown:

Does it have to do with Schilovsky?

2 tsars. together
 
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Clue me! (extra characters)
 
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matthyaouw said:
Clue me! (extra characters)

big bang ?
 
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This is too hard :frown:
 
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what''s the clue?
 
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You will not be able to push this car made by a russian bell maker, is that
true or just sour grapes?
 
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does it have to do with Aleksandr Freidman?
 
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yomamma said:
does it have to do with Aleksandr Freidman?

Change one letter and you have the answer.
 
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No one get it :frown: :bugeye:
 
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Aleksandr Friedmann!
 
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Aleksandr Freidmann!

Aleksandr Friedman!
 
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Alexander Friedman?
 
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If that's right, I got it first!
 
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I got it first, but I'll let you have it.


I figured it out :mad:
 

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