Analog Computing Component - Integrator
Analog Computing Component - Integrator
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- Description
- This iron and aluminum mechanism was built by Ford Instrument Company for use on Dummy Director Mark I, an instrument built for testing purposes. It has an iron box with a shaft carrying a gear and three metal rings that emerge from one side. And a shaft with two rings emerges from another side. A mark on one of the rings under the gear reads: 112-099. A piece of decaying tape on another side reads: #36 1/2” (/) INTEGRATOR.
- References:
- A.B. Clymer, "The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell," Annals of the History of Computing, 15, #2, 1993, 19-34.
- Accession file.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- analog computing component
- date made
- ca 1956
- maker
- Ford Instrument Company
- place made
- United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
- Physical Description
- iron, aluminum (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 cm x 6.9 cm x 4.4 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 23/32 in x 1 23/32 in
- ID Number
- 1982.0751.17
- catalog number
- 1982.0751.17
- accession number
- 1982.0751
- Credit Line
- Ford Instrument Company, Division of Sperry Rand Corporation
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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