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Black and white photograph of Arthur T. Ippen, right, with Henry M. Paynter, talking in front of a computer designed to solve hydraulic engineering problems. Original caption: "Dr. Arthur T. Ippen, professor of hydraulics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (right). and Henry M. Paynter, Jr., instructor in civil engineering, review a hydroelectric plant problem as it is set up for quick solution on the special electronic equipment in the background. The use of the automatic computers for rapid solutions to hydraulic engineering problems is now under study at M. I. T., and they may soon be applied to give answers heretofore available only as a result of lengthy analysis by engineers. For release in Afternoon Papers of Wednesday, February 8, 1950".