Bill Phillips and the MONIAC hydraulic computer

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4 min readDec 15, 2023

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MONIAC — a machine using water to model money/economic processes. Science Museum, London (Photo Tiia Monto courtesy Creative Commons)

Sometime in November 1949, at a London School of Economics seminar room, Bill Phillips, an Australian-born economics student nervously took the floor before an audience of economists. He proceeded to demonstrate the workings of one of the world’s first…

Peter Manthos

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Peter Manthos is a Babyboomer. He lives in Athens with his wife, his daughter and their dog Dali. He studied Economics, travels a lot and he reads voraciously.

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