Building the Manchester differential analyzers: A personal reflection

Beatrice Helen Worsley: Canada's female computer pioneer

“…Possibly the Centre was looking for an inexpensive computational device in addition to the punch card machinery; if constructed properly, a Meccano analyzer could be put to serious use as Porter explains in a recent article. 19 Work on a second analyzer, or perhaps the original model, was restarted by another student in 1951 at the behest of Gotlieb for teaching purposes. 20 Under way at the same time was a much more ambitious electronic engineering research project: the design and construction of Canada's first computer, the University of Toronto Electronic Computer Mark I (UTEC).…”