Calculating the trajectory of missiles during WWII to help gunnery officers with the settings for their artillery in changing conditions took so long that they could never be completed in time. So a couple of academics were asked to build a vacuum tube-based calculating machine. This they did. The resulting machine used 18,000 tubes, weighed 30 ...
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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/fable/fable-machine-late-2018-05/
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