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Tides, moonlight, machines, and D-Day

JAN 01, 2012

DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1376

Peter Zimmerman

I’ll bite. What did happen to those beautiful brass tide-predicting computers Bruce Parker mentions? Presumably they didn’t get bombed, and certainly they are no longer needed. Were they sold for scrap, placed on display, or retired to the back attics of their institutes?

Damned good article. Thanks!

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Peter Zimmerman. (peter.zimmerman@cox.net) Great Falls, Virginia.

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Volume 65, Number 1

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