FT Money Machine

WongDoody

Client: Financial Times

Why build an immersive digital version of a 75-year-old hydraulic computer?

Love and knowledge.

The original is a triumph of analogue technology, constructed when computing was in its infancy by Bill Phillips. With only 14 machines ever built, and just three still operational, it’s an obvious candidate for digital preservation.

In an educational first, the Money Machine represents the first time the basic actions of macroeconomic relationships and policy levers have been widely accessible by the public in an engaging, digestible format for use by students, educators, researchers and historians.