Abstract
This chapter discusses analogue computers at work. A very large number of analogue computers are manufactured commercially, with practically every major industrial country having its own suppliers. Excellent machines are obtainable, with as little as five operational amplifiers, and ranging up to installations containing a hundred or more. For smaller organizations without the capital resources to invest in their own computer facilities, an analogue computer centre has been established in the U.K. by a leading manufacturer, as a service to industry at large. Another financially important group is formed by the airline companies that install elaborate flight simulators for training crews for each type of aircraft in current operation. Similar machines for training operators in other industries have also been developed. Finally, because of the existence of analogue computers, it is necessary to instruct engineering students in their use, after which the computer, in the hands of an able teacher, can become a powerful educational aid in the study of the behavior of the solution of differential equations and of dynamic systems.
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