stackyFACTSIn 1936, a Soviet scientist built a massive water integrator, an analog computer that used a complex network of pipes and water levels to solve differential equations. It successfully modeled concrete curing times and geological shifts long before digital machines.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Technology →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Instead of sculpting digital rocks from scratch, artists just walk around real objects snapping hundreds of pictures. A processor then analyzes how the pixels…
Discover more
Driving backward to turn forward is a mental gymnastics routine required in warehouses. Because they carry extremely heavy loads on the front, steering from…
Discover more
When you turn the little plastic key, you are physically forcing a flat ribbon of steel to spool tightly around a central post. Let go, and the stubborn metal…
Discover more
Audio engineers are basically playing god with copper wire. When Winslow Burhoe was designing high-end speaker crossovers, his complex inverted-dome tweeter…
Discover more
Those massive, furry gray sausages hovering over movie sets are actually highly sensitive audio receivers in winter coats. Because wind utterly destroys…
Discover more
Digital displays owe their layout to dirt and shadows. In the Northern Hemisphere, a sundial's shadow moves from left to right. If early horologists lived in…
Discover more