Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
In the preceding paper, Blackett and Williams described an automatic curve follower for use with the differential analyser. The device would only operate if the x-coordinate was either continuously increasing or continuously decreasing; it could not handle input functions where the x value pulsated, as may often happen when the x-coordinate is not the independent variable.
* The amplifier used is tuned to 50 c./sec.; since the 100 c./sec. components are highly attenuated their presence can be ignored.