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Computing Mechanisms and Linkages
Volume 27 of the MIT Radiation Laboratory Series, authored by Antonin Svoboda and edited by Hubert M. James. Covers the mathematical design of mechanical computing mechanisms and linkage computers, including harmonic transformers, three-bar linkages, cams, integrators, resolvers, and bar-linkage combinations. Developed under wartime pressure for practical methods of designing linkage-based analog computers; originally published by McGraw-Hill in 1948.
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