[Archive c 17.03.2008] Humour [Archive to 28.04.2012] - page 167

 
gpwr: It's not clear what the steering wheel is for?


Have you ever seen a steering wheel in the cab of an electric locomotive?

 

 
Richie:


Have you seen the steering wheel in the cab of an electric locomotive?


The steering wheel in electric locomotives must be different. it probably has a different meaning than the usual steering wheel for turning the wheels.

maybe increases the current?

 
drknn:
The rudder is probably not a discrete, but an analogue part of a computer, and is probably intended for continuous input of values. This is the kind of thing used in military technology for targeting.
And not only in the military. I remember: in the institute where I studied, we had an analogue computer. You could easily solve linear diffusions. There were even labs on it. Maybe the same thing is true here.
 
sergeev:


The rudder in electric locomotives is probably different. it probably has a different meaning than the usual steering wheel for turning the wheels.

maybe the current is increasing?


100% correct answer, it's also called a steering wheel, nowadays they don't make "such" electric locomotives anymore.

It doesn't twist around the axis, it just tilts 20/30 degrees to the right/left to dial in positions

 
Mathemat:
And not just in the military. I remember: in the institute where I studied, we had an analogue computer. You could easily solve linear diffusions. There were even labs on it. Maybe the same thing is true here.
Aha! There was such a thing. Solved it too...)))
 
Svinozavr:
Aha! There was that. Decided too...)))

You'll be the third. :))

 

Not wrong, maybe delete the post better?
 

A special decision-making balloon for moderators has been developed.

To be or not to be?

 

Can't remember whose.

The correct Russian translation is To be, or not to be - Had not been.