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Nitin Kurle—a mechanical engineer and my roommate in Bombay—helped me appreciate the beauty and simplicity of a split-flap display¹ in 1995, when he was narrating about his experiences from Hannover, Germany.²

The sheer ingenuity of producing that correct word or a phrase on a remotely controlled display is a mechanical engineering feat, which not many people appreciate today.

Reminiscence of a time when electronic boards were yet to arrive, these devices pay a tribute to mechanical engineers around the world.

I am not surprised that this flip-flop logic found its way into ENIAC.³

1. See also The analog clock with digital display. [←]
2. He was part of a delegation representing his company, Bharat Forge, Pune at a Trade Exhibition there. [←]
3. See also the Wikipedia entry. [←]

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