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The bombsight that learned to draw

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Desmond Paul Henry built his drawing machines out of surplus bombsight computers — the analog calculators the RAF used to compute where explosives would land. After the war the devices were junk, sold cheap, and Henry, a philosophy lecturer with no formal engineering training, found that if you fed…

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