Carriage and Tracer for an Output Table from the Bush Differential Analyzer
Carriage and Tracer for an Output Table from the Bush Differential Analyzer
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- Description
- The rotation of a shaft representing results calculated by the differential analyzer were transmitted to a tracer that drew the results on an output table. This is the carriage for the tracer point, with tracer point. It is a large open arrangement of steel shafts, with one shaft is perpendicular to a double set.
- Parts of the Bush differential analyzer surviving at the Smithsonian have museum numbers MA.314824 and 1983.3002.01 through 1983.3002.89.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- differential analyzer component
- Other Terms
- Output Table
- date made
- ca 1930
- ca 1930
- maker
- Bush, Vannevar
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- barss (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.5 cm x 102 cm x 74 cm; 4 17/32 in x 40 5/32 in x 29 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 1983.3002.03
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.03
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts, Computation Laboratory
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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