I stumbled across this interesting blog by an Australian academic Dr Brett Holman who has researched the cultural impacts of the fear of bombing on British society during the early 20th century.
There are a lot of other interesting British and Australian related aviation entries too...
http://airminded.org/2008/06/04/moniac-and-the-warfare-state/
One of the interesting things about this is that the prototype of this 'analogue hydraulic computer' was built out of spare Lancaster parts!
1950s
airmindedblog
analogue hydraulic computer
british commonwealth
british empire
cold war
computer
computer architecture
computing
financephalograph
great britain
hydraulic computer
hydraulic computing
late 1940s
london school of economics
monetary national income analogue computer
new zealand
post-world war ii
royal air force
the phillips machine
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