Calculating Machine Components
Calculating Machine Components
- Description
- This object was collected by Brooklyn high school teacher and historian of mathematics L. Leland Locke. A steel shaft holds steel and brass discs six centimeters in diameter. Some discs hold pins and have partially toothed edges. Others are thinner, and may go only part way around. These discs also have a toothed edge and may have a protrusion like those on pinwheel calculating machines.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- calculating machine component
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 cm x 8 cm x 8 cm; 6 5/16 in x 3 5/32 in x 3 5/32 in
- ID Number
- 1983.3003.032
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3003
- catalog number
- 1983.3003.032
- Credit Line
- Gift of L. Leland Locke
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Calculating Machines
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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