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Modeling Economics Using Water
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Engineer/economist Bill Phillips, a New Zealand native, built a machine to model the British economy in 1949. Although it was high-tech for its time, today the Phillips Machine seems a littleâ¦nutty. What's odd about the machine is that it used water power - hydraulics - to model the flow of money through the British economy. Here are some snippets from yesterday's Guardian article about the machine (emphasis added): The prototype was an odd assortment of tanks, pipes, sluices and valves, with water pumped around the machine by a motor cannibalised from the windscreen wiper of a Lancaster bomber.
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