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One for the engineering geeks

  • 22-06-2010 6:17pm
    #1
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    Conrad Zuse, the inventor of the first (mechanical) computer would have been 100 years old today.

    Here's the "Z1" assembled in his parent's living room
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    much cooler than that though is the self assembling "helix tower"
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    Fascinating (for engineering minded people :D) video of it working in this link
    http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungen/2010/konrad-zuse/
    (middle of the page, enlarge for full effect)


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