Running On Water: The Hydraulic Organization That Tapped The Thames To Ability London

This isn't the Phillips model that nosotros looked at inward 2011 (and consider afterwards the jump) this is actual motive force.
From 99% Invisible:

For virtually a century, a vast organization of clandestine pipes run past times the London Hydraulic Power Company pumped H2O to ability hotels, shops, offices, mansion blocks, hotels, docks, factories too more.  Hydraulics lifted elevators at the Bank of England, opened gates along the Thames too fifty-fifty provided backup ability for the Tower Bridge.

The estimator model that in 1 lawsuit explained the British economic scheme (and the novel 1 that explains the world)

Genius.
Here's the master copy Phillips (he of the curve) Machine:

From the headline article at the Guardian.

Here's the schematic, from the New York Times:

Two weeks ago, spell visiting Cambridge University, I arranged to bring luncheon amongst my friend Allan McRobie. He’s a professor of engineering, too then it seemed a flake foreign that he kept insisting nosotros encounter at the division of applied economics. “There’s something at that spot you’ve actually got to see,” he said inward his Liverpudlian lilt. “It’s utterly fab. Just brilliant. The Phillips machine — it uses H2O to predict the economy.”...MORE

 

Schematic diagram of the Phillips machine. (Click to enlarge.)

And here's the latest incarnation:

Genius squared.

The instant schematic is from a post service on GE's Mark I nuclear reactor at ZeroHedge!