Cast iron and milled steel. Solid and built to last. The thing probably weighs about 15kg (35lbs). Imagine a room full of accountants hammering away on these things.
Computers used to be mechanical like this. Nowadays computers have CPU's with billions of transistors. But a long time ago they used relays instead. Which means computers used to click like this too.
The shortcoming initially is that one must be taught the programming steps. Once that is ingrained THEN the steps become second nature and the results occur quite quickly for more complex calculations. Machines when utilized properly can do amazing things.
A movie hacker connects to the Pentagon database with this. He punches in some numbers, and after some suspenseful seconds of whirring and clicking, the machine stops. "I'm in."
This is the coolest thing. I find this more impressive than an electronic computer somehow, because a computer functions by forcing electrons through an abstract obstacle course, whereas this thing is a machine with cogs and stuff that you can comprehend just by looking at it as it functions and then it does something that seems to transcend what a bunch of spinning metal should be able to achieve. This thing is literally a car transmission box, except instead of just making a second thing spin around it does mathematics.
you can comprehend electron obstacle course pretty easily as well as soon as you boil it down to logic gates. if you'd like to learn it play Turing Machine game. it's not that accurate but it gives you a nice welcome to computer logic
If you bother to read boolean algebra you will immediately understand how arithmetic operations are done, how registers or buffers simplify complex calculations, and why computers use 1's and 0's. The slowest digital computer (with relays instead of valves) is much faster than the fastest mechanical calculator
@@asicdathens I'm talking about how the calculator functions, not how the actual maths is done. A computer has microscopic silicon things that do god knows what with electricity, exploiting some complicated physics thing that you cannot perceive and then you get an answer. This mechanical calculator has metal cogs that you can see and touch, moving around and pushing other parts into place in an obvious, immediately intuitive way, and then you get an answer.
@@Elriuhilu You can make a calculator that adds numbers with simple components transistors resistors and cables from a RadioShack type store. There is nothing complicated about digital calculators. An 8 bit binary adder was the first digital circuit I designed when I was 17.
@@Elriuhilu microscopic silicon things are convenient but you can just wire separate components together and get the same circuit. You could even, theoretically, create such simple components with your own hands (disregarding their quality of course). The only physical process they exploit is ability of one current flow to block another current flow. Just like you could control rotation of worm screw with worm gear. Or like water pressure would push a piston that, as s result, would block another pipe. And the rest of all that complicated silicon circuitry is those transistors wired in many different ways. Like a vehicle that consists of functional blocks - engine, transmission, steering system, suspension, which consist of cogs, worms, shafts, belts, pistons etc. The difference between mechanical and electrical devices is that the former manipulate torque and the latter - current. But aside from that, they are one I'm typing all of that not because I like to argue in the Internet, but because I hope that people who appreciate the beauty of mechanics will appreciate the beauty of electricity as well. With time invested, an electrical calculator becomes as simple as a transmission box
The foundation of machine language upon which the algorithms and microchips powering this here UA-cam and the devices using it is right here, folks. Fascinating stuff.
You absolutely can, considering there's no steel here nor the exposed copper/bronze metallic colour which often pairs with it. This is very much not steampunk, just cool mechanical stuff :)
This is what old math teachers back in the 80s and 90s were thinking about when they told students "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" isn't it?
That is so neat! I got a small hand crank one, probably functions about the same mechanically, but I gotta do every step by hand. One, crank. Three, (backwards) crank crank crank. Shift. Crank crank crank. Shift. Crank crank crank. Shift. Crank crank crank. And then the crank counter ends up reading 0.3333 because that's all the cranks I bothered to do. XD
What highways in grade school I had a handheld mechanical calculator then went up to 10 x 10. They wouldn't let me have it! Today kids kids must have calculators powerful enough to take them to the movie, and back
use camparations and mecanical secuences to devide. down (where its the 1) its the total to divide. and the up (in where the 3 its is the divide) you can see the machine writes the numbers like when you write it in paper to devide (or the rest of calculations) use the same principe. when he push the arrow button he just says the machine to start the camparition where the mark its
This is how my brain works out problems back when I was in secondary school. It wasnt instant I had to manually do the thinking. I think it caused me to burn out later. That was nearly 10 years ago
I used an earlier machine than this, all hand set up and cranked. I think it was called a Brunsvega or similar. We were young jig and tool designers in an engineering drawing office around about 1964. I still have a slightly more modern model, "still hand cranked", it's buried somewhere in my crammed full garage😢.
@@lsswappedcessna Gotcha. Sadly, Microsoft and others don't require us to study computer history to get certified. I find it fascinating. This machine is more impressive to me than a Smartphone.
The electromechanical computers that were used at Bletchley Park to crack Axis codes during World War II were called "bombes". The handheld Curta calculator is sometimes referred to as a "math grenade".
I remember youngsters back in my day we had dem watch calculators and sometimes teachers wouldn’t know we had em in math class during a test. All jokes aside that thing looks heavy.
Cast iron and milled steel. Solid and built to last. The thing probably weighs about 15kg (35lbs).
Imagine a room full of accountants hammering away on these things.
lmao cast iron is not built to last
Rubbish. A thick iron frame that's kept in a dry environment like an office or bank would last generations. @@haroldd7178
"a room full of accountants hammering away on these things"
Imagine the noise, heck no!
I can imagine the hearing damage
@@haroldd7178why not? We have plenty of cast iron tools over a millenia old.
Back when pocket calculators were HEAVY
Aren't gonna have a calculator in my pocket, am I teach
it's not a pocker calculator...
@@4rumani pocker calculator?
Do you have too many pockers?
How many pockers do you need dude
@@4rumani you have no understanding how deep were pockets back then 😂
what is a pocket?
The level of ingenuity to build such a thing
And you call that junk ingenuity?
@@Mr.orangecum___
You are a brain dead macaque compared to those who designed this masterpiece
🤷🤷♀️🤷♂️🧍♂️🧍♀️🧍dislike (call it junk) what can’t be understood ….
@@Mr.orangecum___ It performs math with just gears and levers, man. I can't comprehend the kind of engineering behind that.
@Mr.orangecum___ Imagine being smug in the face of technology you couldn't understand if you spent the rest of your life studying it....
That one quite kid with his unhackable computer:
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT 🔥
Just use a slide rule qwq.
@@BritishEngineerqwq in the wild pwq
Quite.
Easily buggable
Such fine workmanship and engineering for absolutely glacial calculation speed. Computers and silicon have spoiled us.
It’s like a cross between a typewriter and a calculator! Such an interesting contraption indeed!
they are both machines. this is just an old calculator. instead of typewriters, now we have word lol
@@lemonstranglerWord*
@@PANZERFAUST90 *Wurd
@@lemonstrangler Werd*
@@PANZERFAUST90 *Wird
My grandmother did bookkeeping for our family business on a mechanical adding machine. I used to love the way that it sounded.
the amount of logic and thought that went inside this is insane
This is how the actual Redstone Minecraft looks like
Imagine how genius you must be to create things like that
not much, if you stand on the shoulders of other geniuses. Thats how we get things made.
@@bosesebi6685who in turn stand on the shoulders of others
Computers used to be mechanical like this. Nowadays computers have CPU's with billions of transistors. But a long time ago they used relays instead. Which means computers used to click like this too.
Well, a few computers anyways. I think most from that period would have used vacuum tubes, though are area few notable examples of relay computers.
@Figmententity если мы пойдём дальше, то мне кажется все результаты которые щас достигнуты будут такими же слабыми как и это...
This isn't even using relays. This is purely mechanical.
@FigmententityYou already are. AI is changing everything yet again. The digital revolution is almost complete, now the computers are taking over.
@@nikkiofthevalley he didnt say this was using relays, just that its mechanical, like old relay computers.
0:18 bro really said 🚂🚂🚂
blessed by the algorythm once gain
My dad had a Frieden when I was little. It had a roll around stand. It would make noise like that and the stand would rock back and forth.
Someone band needs to record this thing or use it on stage as part of their rhythm section.
The shortcoming initially is that one must be taught the programming steps.
Once that is ingrained THEN the steps become second nature and the results occur quite quickly for more complex calculations.
Machines when utilized properly can do amazing things.
What happens if you divide 0 by 0?
Singularity event occurs. Lets find out
The calculator explodes.
A black hole opens
A Vickers mark 2 diesel engine starts
It grows limbs, throws a middle finger and quits its job
The guys that built these things were serious engineers.
A movie hacker connects to the Pentagon database with this.
He punches in some numbers, and after some suspenseful seconds of whirring and clicking, the machine stops.
"I'm in."
I love how movie hackers pound away frantically at the keyboard because that's more dramatic than just point and clicking at icons
This is epic. Can't believe people used these in the ancient times.
This is the coolest thing. I find this more impressive than an electronic computer somehow, because a computer functions by forcing electrons through an abstract obstacle course, whereas this thing is a machine with cogs and stuff that you can comprehend just by looking at it as it functions and then it does something that seems to transcend what a bunch of spinning metal should be able to achieve. This thing is literally a car transmission box, except instead of just making a second thing spin around it does mathematics.
you can comprehend electron obstacle course pretty easily as well as soon as you boil it down to logic gates. if you'd like to learn it play Turing Machine game. it's not that accurate but it gives you a nice welcome to computer logic
If you bother to read boolean algebra you will immediately understand how arithmetic operations are done, how registers or buffers simplify complex calculations, and why computers use 1's and 0's. The slowest digital computer (with relays instead of valves) is much faster than the fastest mechanical calculator
@@asicdathens I'm talking about how the calculator functions, not how the actual maths is done. A computer has microscopic silicon things that do god knows what with electricity, exploiting some complicated physics thing that you cannot perceive and then you get an answer. This mechanical calculator has metal cogs that you can see and touch, moving around and pushing other parts into place in an obvious, immediately intuitive way, and then you get an answer.
@@Elriuhilu You can make a calculator that adds numbers with simple components transistors resistors and cables from a RadioShack type store. There is nothing complicated about digital calculators. An 8 bit binary adder was the first digital circuit I designed when I was 17.
@@Elriuhilu microscopic silicon things are convenient but you can just wire separate components together and get the same circuit. You could even, theoretically, create such simple components with your own hands (disregarding their quality of course). The only physical process they exploit is ability of one current flow to block another current flow. Just like you could control rotation of worm screw with worm gear. Or like water pressure would push a piston that, as s result, would block another pipe. And the rest of all that complicated silicon circuitry is those transistors wired in many different ways. Like a vehicle that consists of functional blocks - engine, transmission, steering system, suspension, which consist of cogs, worms, shafts, belts, pistons etc. The difference between mechanical and electrical devices is that the former manipulate torque and the latter - current. But aside from that, they are one
I'm typing all of that not because I like to argue in the Internet, but because I hope that people who appreciate the beauty of mechanics will appreciate the beauty of electricity as well. With time invested, an electrical calculator becomes as simple as a transmission box
Those calculator videos have dominated my FYP all of a sudden 🧍🏽♂️
If your quantum computer fails, you can always rely on this baby
The mechanism is so satisfying
Holy high tech!
But in seriousness, the design is the work of utter geniuses. Very impressive machine. 🖖😀
The foundation of machine language upon which the algorithms and microchips powering this here UA-cam and the devices using it is right here, folks. Fascinating stuff.
Imagine how fast we went from 5s for 1 operation (0.20Hz) to some billions operation a sec (1~GHz typical CPU nowadays, right inside this smartphone)
Oh yes, division: １＋３Ｉ←←
And clearing: ＩⅡ/Ⅲ→→
I can imagine no child was ever allowed near that thing when it was new.
this operation is not for newbie..😂
Isn't this some sort of shift register? Idk.
What kind of magical language is that?
You cant get more steampunk than this
You absolutely can, considering there's no steel here nor the exposed copper/bronze metallic colour which often pairs with it.
This is very much not steampunk, just cool mechanical stuff :)
Steam pneumatic computer
Well, there is electrical drive, but it could be replaced with steam 'w'
More steampunk are the mechanical calculators with levers for number input and a handle you need to turn for it to work(i have one)
Well there's literally nothing in this video that involves steam machinery, so I'd say you can, very easily
Imagine bringing this beast to math exam
I can't believe this is the first time I'm seeing one of those. I had no idea this existed.
That is incredible engineering for it's time.
WHO EVER IS TAPPING IN THE EXAM ROOM, STOP, THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING
beautiful piece of engineering.
I'm now nostalgic for a calculator built before I was born, and I'm a pretty old sunnavabich as it is.
Only a genius could come up with this
When the teachers say you aint gonna carry a calculator with you everywhere
This is what old math teachers back in the 80s and 90s were thinking about when they told students "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" isn't it?
That is so neat! I got a small hand crank one, probably functions about the same mechanically, but I gotta do every step by hand. One, crank. Three, (backwards) crank crank crank. Shift. Crank crank crank. Shift. Crank crank crank. Shift. Crank crank crank. And then the crank counter ends up reading 0.3333 because that's all the cranks I bothered to do. XD
5 divided by 0 result mechanical calculator explode 😂
That's really cool. I didn't know about these. Thank you
I will take it to my class.
The dust on the machine and the retro vibe make for a really romantic video.
What highways in grade school I had a handheld mechanical calculator then went up to 10 x 10. They wouldn't let me have it! Today kids kids must have calculators powerful enough to take them to the movie, and back
This is amazing.
The grandfather of the enigma. Beautiful.
This is how the brains of some people operates.
It was the turn of the century!
I like it.
well i dont
@@theultimateogrelord2783why
@@theultimateogrelord2783you evil man
Calculators then was like today's steam engine
imagine steam engines then
When type writer falls in love with a calculator this happens 😂😂
What happens when you divide by 0 on this
Bringin' this bad boy to the SAT for my next go-around
This sounds sweet and peaceful
That thing is an antique, they will never be made before and it's a lost art 😮
Can someone please explain how that series of inputs equates to 1 ÷ 3? I am utterly confused after several watches
use camparations and mecanical secuences to devide. down (where its the 1) its the total to divide. and the up (in where the 3 its is the divide) you can see the machine writes the numbers like when you write it in paper to devide (or the rest of calculations) use the same principe. when he push the arrow button he just says the machine to start the camparition where the mark its
@@satariel8652 Do you mean "comparison" or is "camparition" something else?
What an absolutely beautiful machine. Thank you for sharing. ❤
Amazing
Old people is so smart and hardworkers
I still have a working Facit calculator I bought 2nd hand in the 60s.
Now THAT’S high-tech!
This is how my brain works out problems back when I was in secondary school. It wasnt instant I had to manually do the thinking. I think it caused me to burn out later. That was nearly 10 years ago
I used an earlier machine than this, all hand set up and cranked. I think it was called a Brunsvega or similar. We were young jig and tool designers in an engineering drawing office around about 1964. I still have a slightly more modern model, "still hand cranked", it's buried somewhere in my crammed full garage😢.
Sir, is that a 1890 or 1920 calculator?
Thank you for point at the answer I need to write this down
how it feels to code a basic arithmetic operation in assembly
This guy told all his reverse polar calculator buddies to hold his beer.
Amazing how fast we were able to shrink this down into a cpu
I would like to see 2/3.
That one math teacher who's 110 years old and refuses to use electronics.
I'll soon be trading mine for the Hamann 400.
With this video, I can now say I can divide faster than a calculator can
This machine hacks someone to death instead of someone hacking it.
Where's the Imitation Game soundtrack when I need it?
So what happens to the missing 1?
This is what teachers meant when they said you won't always have a calculator with you.
How does it works ?
Bring that in to the SAT
How can this work without a computer?
I've been in IT for over 20 years, and this is fascinating.
I want one.
It basically is a computer, just using linkages, switches, levers, and mechanical logic instead of microprocessors and code.
It is a computer. It's a machine bulid to compute.
@@lsswappedcessna Gotcha. Sadly, Microsoft and others don't require us to study computer history to get certified.
I find it fascinating. This machine is more impressive to me than a Smartphone.
i highly doubt you worked in IT for 20 years.
What do you think happens when you do arithmetic on a computer? That it calls out to yet another computer?
Lets be honest here this looks like a bomb
The electromechanical computers that were used at Bletchley Park to crack Axis codes during World War II were called "bombes".
The handheld Curta calculator is sometimes referred to as a "math grenade".
Is there battery?
I remember youngsters back in my day we had dem watch calculators and sometimes teachers wouldn’t know we had em in math class during a test. All jokes aside that thing looks heavy.
This looks like it can survive an EMP attack and still work for a millennium.
How do these machines even work?
Mechanical art and sound
Is this the Enigma? I thought there was only one left?
No, the Enigma wasn't a calculator, it was an enciphering machine.
@@MattMcIrvinIs it a Vic 20?
Id love to see a video of someone taking a math test at school with this.
Did you try to divide 1 by 0 ? could be interesting
Cool, now divide by 0.
lmao the thing never stops calculating
Can it run doom?
But does it run doom?
But can you run Doom on it?
It doesn’t have a screen…
@@ddylan4catsthat hasn’t stopped people from playing doom on P O T A T O E S
@@ddylan4catsscreen is the least of it's problems on why it can't run Doom...
I think in order to be trully qualified as "mechanical" calculator need to be spring loaded or something. How could would it be?
Thank God I can do 1/3 in my head.
Perfect calculator for my math exam...where can i buy it?
That is so cool!
If mobile phone were not invented then we can see most genius people's today
I'm guessing the answer will be 1/3.
I wonder what happens if you try to divide by zero
Search for "mechanical calculator divide by 0" and watch a couple of videos. Most of them just get caught in an endless loop.
It gets stuck in a loop.
I wonder what would happen if you put 0÷0
It is good for a fantasy story. Using it, the sales is good. 😊
I mean, it works like maneki neko. 😊