Word: devane
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...work out one solution every two days. It takes a long, while to set the machine for this problem, but, once set, it whips out solutions at the rate of four per hour. Mr. Travis thinks the machine may solve astronomy's knotty "three-body problem."* Professor Charles DeVan Fawcett, the machine's enthusiastic impresario and financial nurse since its inception, believes it will calculate the factors of maximum efficiency in airplane stabilizers, automatic temperature control, radio, television, "wirephotos," high-speed induction motors...