The Water Integrator - A Scientific Tool

The water integrator was a very serious scientific tool. Some vacuum tube machines were used well into the silicon era because there simply weren't enough computers around. Real silicon and electron computers, at least ones that existed prior to the rise of pcs, filled a different niche lukyanov's integrate was operating like a really fancy desk top calculator. We can also factor in resource contention here. If you were working in a soviet lab and just needed to run some Integrals, then it may have been hard to get access to a fully fledged computer. However, there was a more hydraulic ternative. The corps of engineers wanted a hydraulic computer for their own, possibly shady