News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Babcock Review

Issue

Issue No.

4

Date Released

1957

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Renfrew Runways
• 2. Pegasus comes to Babcock House
• 3. Behind the Headlines (Steam for Paper)
• 4. Steam for Steel

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: Modern engineering, and particularly nuclear engineering, is increasingly complex and the requirements of design involve a mass of long and complicated calculation.
Electronics have come to the rescue with a modern wonder, the electronic computer, commonly known as the electronic brain.
Babcock & Wilcox, involved in modern engineering development on a wide front, early recognized the value of this new "tool", and installed a "Pegasus" electronic computer at Babcock House, the Company’s Head Office in London.
This tiem of the film sees the installation of "Pegasus", with its highly complex internal organs, and shows the computer in action, truly a marvel of this scientific age.

Keywords

Engineering; Nuclear energy; Computers and computing

Written sources

Synopses of the Babcock Film Magazines booklet   unpaginated, Used for synopsis

Credits:

Sponsor

Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.

Production Co.

Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.