Gear with Disc from the Bush Differential Analyzer
Gear with Disc from the Bush Differential Analyzer
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- Description
- This short shaft holds a gear at one end and an iron piece at the other. Both the gear and the iron piece rotate. A mark reads: BOST [...].
- 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
- Differential Analyzer Component; Gear With Disc
- date made
- ca 1930
- maker
- Bush, Vannevar
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.2 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 2 7/16 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in
- ID Number
- 1983.3002.17
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.17
- 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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