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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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
Science Museum Group Collection
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Relay-operated logic machine 'Logical Computer' designed by Dr Mays and Dr Prinz. Badged as Ferranti. Front three
Science Museum Group Collection
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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