This machine, a.k.a. “Old Brass Brains ... and elsewhere based on the news from Old Brass Brains. In England, tide prediction was handled by Arthur Thomas Doodson from the Liverpool Tidal ...

Such machines usually provided predictions valid from hour to hour and day to day for a year or more ahead. The first tide-predicting machine, designed and built in 1872-3, and followed by two larger ...

Sir William Thomson (better known as Lord Kelvin) designed one such “tide-predicting machine”, an impressive arrangement of gears and pulleys, back in the late 19th century. [Pepijn de Vos ...