Mechanical solution of algebraic equations

✍ Scribed by Harry C. Hart; Irven Travis

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1938
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 409 KB
• Volume: 225
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(38)90525-3

✦ Synopsis

The paper describes a machine for determining the real and complex roots of higher-degree algebraic equations . The principle of operation is found in the correspondence between sine wave quantities and complex numbers . The particular machine is designed for equations of the eighth degree, and finds all the roots with engineering accuracy in the space of a few minutes .

Though designed primarily with a view to determining the indicial admittance of electric networks, the machine should find utility in other fields of applied mathematics as well .