Dr. Mays and Dr. Prinz's Relay-operated logic machine
- Made:
- 1951 in United Kingdom
- maker:
- Ferranti Limited
- designer:
- Prinz, Dr. Dietrich and
- Wolfe Mays
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LicenseRelay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Front three
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Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Front three
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Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Front three
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Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Top three quarter
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Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Three quarter
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Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Three quarter
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Three quarter
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Three quarter
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Three quarter
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Three quarter
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Three quarter
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Relay-operated logic machine designed by Dr. Wolfe Mays and Dr. Dietrich Prinz at the University of Manchester and made by Ferranti Limited, British, 1951
Pattern-recognition was part of wider research into machine intelligence. This machine was made by physicist Dietrich Prinz, one of Alan Turing’s protégés, and Wolfe Mays, a
philosophy lecturer. It is an electrical device for testing certain logical statements, and
helped researchers build human-like qualities into machines using mathematics.
Research into pattern recognition now has widespread commercial and military
applications, from driverless cars, fingerprint-scanners and robots on battlefields to
surveillance and cyber-security.
Details
- Category:
- Computing & Data Processing
- Object Number:
- 1959-25
- Materials:
- aluminium alloy, chromium plated, copper (alloy), plastic (unidentified) and steel (metal)
- Measurements:
-
Overall: 465 mm x 700 mm x 430 mm, 42 kg
- type:
- logic machine
- taxonomy:
-
- furnishing and equipment
- tools & equipment
- credit:
- University of Manchester
