12 Nov
2007
12 Nov
'07
9:31 a.m.
Lawrence Wilkinson wrote:
On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 22:39 -0700, Brent Hilpert
wrote:
Is it at MOTAT? Unfortunately I never saw it when I was there - maybe it was
all in storage then :( Certainly looks like the one in the period photos that
I was looking at, anyway.
There was some correspondence along with the photos at the Whipple museum - it
didn't say that the machine had survived, but as I recall the photo collection
*did* come from someone in Australia (I'm 99% certain it was shipped from
Australia, not NZ). As they museum had the photos for a few years now, it
seems to all tie up (there's a fair bit of moving back and forth between NZ
and Australia, after all)
Go to the link Jason supplied and then go up a
level to differntial analysers
In addition to the page for his own analyser, Tim Robinson has web pages there
about both the Manchester and Cambridge analysers. According to Tim the Cambridge
machine is in New Zealand and still exists.
I've just visited the museum in Auckland that has it. The other photos of the meccano machine were taken a
few years ago as it
was being restored.
That'll be why I didn't see it then (assuming it is MOTAT). Shame. Their
Strowger exchange was darn impressive though (and I spent ages staring into
the mercury arc rectifier which was part of their tram system :-)
Still, it's an excuse to go back again... :-)
cheers
Jules