A 1953 training film for a mechanical fire control computer aboard Navy Ships. Amazing how problems of mathematical computation were solved so elegantly in "permanent"...
Quite the perfectionist, Babbage designed this incredibly complicated 5-ton mechanical computer with 8000 parts (before the era of standard screws) to calculate and print tables...
Close look at a Nike Hercules Time-to-Intercept electro Mechanical Computer.Battery site SF-88 #4 The amazing story of the Anti Air (as well as anti surface)...