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The Water Integrator was an early analog computer built in the Soviet Union in 1936.〔http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/338106〕 It functioned by careful manipulation of water through a room full of interconnected pipes and pumps. The water level in various chambers (with precision to fractions of a millimeter) represented stored numbers, and the rate of flow between them represented mathematical operations. This machine was capable of solving non-homogeneous differential equations. Water analog computers were used in the Soviet Union until the 1980s for large-scale modelling. ==Similarities Today== In 2015, Stanford graduate students built an experimental fluidics-based computer with the use of water droplets and magnets.〔http://www.zmescience.com/science/physics/water-droplet-computer-0534534/〕 ==See also== * History of computing hardware * MONIAC Computer * Fluidics 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Water integrator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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