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What is something your country doesn't get enough credit for? (lemm.ee)
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[–] spittingimage 2 points 1 year ago

New Zealand. We built the first mechanical computer, the Totalizer. (Babbage designed one first, but never completed a working model.) We used it to calculate odds for horse races. It was gravity-powered and used the weight of a concrete block on a rope to turn gears.