Brass
Here is a drawing I put together in Google Sketchup showing my idea for the module drive: Each rod has a spring which tries to pull it in. If the brass bar shown on the right side is slid to the left, then the rod will pull in if it can. Pushing the bar back [...]
Brass, brass, wonderful brass. It’s Victorian and steampunk and all industrial-revolutiony. Let’s build a rod-logic brass analytical engine! A hundred years from now, someone will take this design and actually build it, putting it in a museum as “an example of an early 21st century computation device in the style of the alternate-reality subgenre known [...]
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