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1951/02, Popular Science, "Navy Brains Answers with Pictures"Tags
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COMPLEX problems can now be reduced to three-dimensional, easy-to-understand answers by “Typhoon,” the latest thing in electronic brains. Built by the RCA Laboratories for the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, the new computer is showing naval experts just how theoretical guided missiles - will react in actual flight.
Up until the completion of the new $1,400,000 calculator a few months ago, the men whose job it is to create new and better guided missiles had to spend thousands of hours at complicated computations and many months at building full-size $100,000 test models. And when they were finished, there was no guarantee that the new missile would perform as expected.
Now, they can simply dial the design characteristics of any proposed guided-missile system into Typhoon and actually see in drawings and in three-dimensional models just how the missile will function.
