And here I am having trouble with undergraduate business statistics. Einstein did so much and all he had was a pencil and some paper (as well as a great mind).
Well, to be fair, a lot of Einstein’s work was based off the work of others, it’s just that he managed to finally fuse a bunch of theories and ideas together into working equations. ‘Shoulders of Giants’, and such (though that’s Newton).
And here I am having trouble with undergraduate business statistics. Einstein did so much and all he had was a pencil and some paper (as well as a great mind).
And this:
Don´t EVER forget that the WHOLE Apollo project was calculated by these!
Actually they had some electromechanical computers those days, but they were pretty primative.
On that subject - if there weren’t any transistors, we would be doing calculations on these little babies:
That is a Curta calculator. Developed by a death camp inmate during WW2, it’s a marvellously compact totally mechanical calculation device, capable of some stunningly complex functions. Still available for sale, too, though I can’t justify buying one.
