An Ingenious Marble Adding Machine

Mathematics, Technology, , 12 Comments

From time to time, I would find something truly remarkable on the web and the following is a good example:

Matthias Wandel was able to contruct a wooden adding machine that adds binary numbers. However, the most curious thing about it is that it is operated by marbles. Just watch the video to see its mechanism. Even those of you who are not fond of mathematics can appreciate this.

Reference

Binary Marble Adding Machine

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