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These US Navy training films from 1953 show how early targeting analog computers used levers, gears, and cams to calculate firing solutions — mechanical computing at its most sophisticated.
See also: Main Battery Fire Control Training Video from 1954 and The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell.
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