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{{short description|British scientist}} ...lf''' [[FRSE]] (24 November 1902 – 20 March 1983) was a 20th-century British scientist, whose disciplines had a broad scope. He made lasting contributio ...

...n in 1910. It was used until 1965, when it was replaced by an [[Electronic computers|electronic computer]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://docs.lib.noaa.go == Early U.S. tide-prediction efforts == ...

...was a special-purpose mechanical [[analog computer]] of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, constructed and set up to predict the ebb and flow of sea t ...um (online exhibit)]].</ref> They were made obsolete by digital electronic computers that can be programmed to carry out similar computations, but the tide-pred ...

...one of the [[Germans]]' ''Geheimschreiber'' (secret writer) machines. The British codenamed non-[[Morse code|Morse]] traffic [[Fish (cryptography)|"Fish"]], ...Copeland | title = Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers | place = Oxford | publisher = Oxford University Press | isbn = 978-0-19-28 ...

==Early life== ...s Americanised and American Naval literature lists his origin as Greece as early as 1825 but the country was in the process of fighting for their [[Greek Wa ...

...] during World War II.<ref name=computermuseum>{{cite web | title = Analog Computers | work = Lexikon's History of Computing | year = 1995 | url = http://www.co ...f> In fact, two World War II-era straight running torpedoes — fired by the British nuclear-powered submarine {{HMS|Conqueror|S48|6}} — sank {{ship|ARA|General ...

...on) were first known to the Moorish astronomer [[Abdul Hassan Ali]] in the early thirteenth century<ref>{{cite web | publisher = British Sundial Society ...

{{short description|British astronomer}} | nationality = British ...

...are fundamental building blocks of [[digital electronics]] systems used in computers, communications, and many other types of systems. The first electronic latch was invented in 1918 by the British physicists [[William Eccles (physicist)|William Eccles]] and [[F. W. Jordan ...

{{Use British English|date=July 2022}} [[Willard Libby]], the inventor of radiocarbon dating, pointed out as early as 1955 the possibility that the ratio might have varied over time. Discre ...

...itish to read high-level German army messages during [[World War II]]. The British [[Government Communications Headquarters#Government Code and Cypher School ...sion systems ''"Sägefisch"'' (sawfish),{{sfn|Gannon|2007|p=103}} which led British [[cryptographer]]s to refer to encrypted German [[Wireless telegraphy|radio ...

{{Use British English|date=November 2016}} ...itted the rapid development of numerical processing techniques. Initially, computers were used as an aid to network analysis<ref>Peikari B., “Fundamentals of Ne ...

...Secret History of Project Orion |medium=Television documentary|publisher= British Broadcasting Company|date=2003| accessdate=2016-10-03|url= https://www.imdb ...microholography to image biological specimens]] (1982). As a result, this early work, research in pursuit of x-ray holography has continued at University o ...

In the early days of the [[Cold War]], the U.S. and its allies developed an elaborate se ...ary, the encryption technology (techniques as well as equipment and, after computers became important, crypto software) was included as a Category XIII item int ...

...hy/docs/glymour/relativityeclipses.pdf |title=Relativity and eclipses: the British eclipse expeditions of 1919 and their predecessors |journal=Historical Stud ...2191706 |access-date=2 November 2021}}</ref> Eddington had taken part in a British expedition to Brazil to observe the 1912 eclipse but was interested in diff ...

...3095C|doi-access=free}}</ref> This pattern can be physiological, as during early development, or pathological, as in diseases such as [[Ohtahara syndrome]]. ...09.02345.x|pmid=19941521|doi-access=free}}</ref> It wasn't until after the early 1960s that the burst suppression pattern began being used in medical settin ...

...estra, string quartet, xylophone, vibraphone and celesta, synthesizers and computers. ...piano four-hands, two pianos and small orchestra. Amongst the arrangers is British composer [[Thomas Adès]]. ...

...to spatial problems rather than create original innovations, such as using computers to aid in cartography.<ref name=Monmonier1 /><ref name="map_printing_method ===Early history and etymology=== ...

...un, the word "tropical" was lent to the period of the seasonal cycle . The early Chinese, Hindus, Greeks, and others made approximate measures of the tropic ===Early value, precession discovery=== ...

...ht today best call a [[Automatic lathe#Screw machine|screw machine]] of an early and prescient sort. It made use of a leadscrew to guide the cutter to produ ...ame="Rybczynski2000pp97-99">{{Harvnb|Rybczynski|2000|pp=97–99}}.</ref> The British engineer [[Henry Maudslay]] (1771–1831) gained fame by popularizing such la ...