Here is a two-part Navy training film from 1953 that describes the inner workings of mechanical fire control computers. It covers seven mechanisms: shafts, gears, cams, differentials ...

Mr. William D. Walton is a research fire protection engineer with the Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Computer programs are used in many areas of ...

RUMOUR CONFIRMED Last week, Ross Stevenson told the story of a mobile computer exploding at the Alfred hospital due to a ...