Giant brains; or, Machines that thinkBerkeley, Edmund Callis
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Giant brains; or, Machines that think
Berkeley, Edmund Callis
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MILLER, DAYTON C., The Henrici Harmonic
Analyzer and Devices for Extending and Facilitating
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NETWORK ANALYZERS
A third branch of the analogue calculating machine is the network
analyzer. To solve problems, this machine uses the laws governing a
network of electrical circuits. For example, an electric power company
with a system of power lines over hundreds of miles may have a problem
about electrical power: will an accident or a sudden demand cause a
breakdown anywhere in the system? In the General Electric Company
in Schenectady, N. Y., there is a machine called the A.C. Network
Analyzer. All the properties of the power company’s network of lines
can be fed on a small scale into the analyzer. Certain dials are turned
and certain plugwires are connected. Then various kinds of “accidents”
and “sudden demands” are fed into the machine, and the response of the
system is noted. The answers given by the machine are multiplied by the
proper scale factor, and in this way the problem of the power company
is solved.
There are two kinds of problems that network analyzers are built to
solve: the steady state conditions and the transient conditions. For
example, you may not overload a fuse with an electric iron when it is
plugged in and being used, but as you pull out the cord, you may blow
the fuse: the steady state does not overstrain the system, but the
transient does.
Some articles on network analyzers are:
ENNS, W. E., A New Simple Calculator of Load
Flow in A.C. Networks, _Transactions of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers_,
vol. 62, 1943, pp. 786-790.
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