A mechanical computer is a computer built from mechanical components such as levers and gears rather than electronic components. The most common examples are adding machines and mechanical counters, which use the turning of gears to increment output displays.

机械计算机（英语：mechanical computer）由杠杆、齿轮等机械部件而非电子部件构成。 最常见的例子是加法器和机械计数器，它们使用齿轮的转动来增加显示的输出。

机械计算机 （英語： mechanical computer）由 杠杆 、 齿轮 等 机械 部件而非 电子 部件构成。 最常见的例子是 加法器 和 机械计数器，它们使用齿轮的转动来增加显示的输出。 更复杂的例子可以进行 乘法 和 除法。 1960 年代曾出售一个计算 平方根 的模型。 机械计算机可以是透過使用平滑构件的移動（如弧形板或 计算尺）进行计算的 模拟计算机，或者使用齿轮的 电子计算机。 机械计算机在二战期间达到顶峰，它们构成了复杂 投弹瞄准器 的基础，包括 諾頓瞄準器 以及类似的 …

2021年10月6日 · Here we discuss the use of mechanical mechanisms, and associated nonlinearities, as a means of processing information, with a view towards a framework in which adaptable materials and structures...

Charles Babbage was a brilliant polymath who created some of the world’s first designs for mechanical computers. He was also an often unpopular curmudgeon who railed against public games and street performers. ‍ In many ways, Charles was ahead of his time!

2024年6月26日 · Mechanical computing encodes information in deformed states of mechanical systems, such as multistable structures. However, achieving stable mechanical memory in most multistable systems remains challenging and often limited to binary information.

2012年1月23日 · In 1837, the famed English engineer, Charles Babbage, drew up plans for a mechanical computer. Made of brass and iron and powered by steam, the Analytical Engine was designed 100 years before...

2021年9月24日 · A mechanical computer is an analog machine that uses gears, levers, and pulleys to represent the process of computation. These devices are not digital computers that use binary numbers to represent data. The most simple form of the mechanical computing device is called a difference engine.

Mechanical computers have found applications in various emerging technologies at the micro‐scale that combine mechanical functions with computational and control functions not feasible by purely electronic processing. Mechanical computers also have been demonstrated at the molecular scale, and may also provide unique capabilities at that scale.

2024年6月26日 · Mechanical computers are computers that operate using mechanical components rather than electronic ones. Historically, these mechanical components have been things like levers or gears. However, mechanical computers can also be made using structures that are multistable, meaning they have more than one stable state – think of anything that ...