Notes for: Rawlin Richard Maconchy Mallock

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After completing his studies at Cambridge, Richard served the war effort with the armaments company Armstrong Whitworth. After the war, he worked at HMS Vernon, a research institute of the British Admiralty. In the late 1920s Richard returned to Cambridge University and became involved in the construction of mechanical machines for the calculation of linear algebraic simultaneous equations. In many ways, these analog machines were precursors to computers. In 1931, Richard built his prototype machine which could solve six simultaneous equations, while working at the Cambridge University Engineering Laboratories. An improved model, capable of solving ten simultaneous equations was built in 1933, and licensed to the Cambridge Instrument Company which built a working machine which was presented to the Royal Society and later sold to the university's Mathematical Department. Richard retired from the university in 1937