[lbo-talk] Vladimir Lukyanov's water computer, 1936. Image courtesy of the Polytechnic Museum, Moscow

[socialismorbarbarism]

Since this was a bare link, I did some googling, found this:

http://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-computers.html

Lukyanov was trying to solve some very practical construction
engineering problems (specifically, failures in concrete).

And now for the rest of the story: Over ten years later, Bill Phillips
(of Phillips curve fame) developed a water computer for "calculating"
the bourgeois national economy, the MONIAC:

'Guest Column: Like Water for Money'

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/guest-column-like-water-for-money/

Did everyone here know this, and I am only the last to know? Sorry if
repeating the obvious. Anyway, the New York Times pundit treats the
Phillips machine as not only some great technical achievement (an
analog computer? in 1949?) but as some great *intellectual*
advancement in science as well. Sheesh. And of course no mention of
the earlier Soviet computer.

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