Component from the Bush Differential Analyzer

Description:

This steel cylinder has a with hole down the middle wo that it would fit on a shaft.

Parts of the Bush differential analyzer surviving at the Smithsonian have museum numbers MA.314824 and 1983.3002.01 through 1983.3002.89.

Date Made: ca 1930

Maker: Bush, Vannevar

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge

Subject: Mathematics

Subject:

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Mathematics, Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers, Science & Mathematics

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Credit Line: Gift of Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts, Computation Laboratory

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1983.3002.38Catalog Number: 1983.3002.38Nonaccession Number: 1983.3002

Object Name: Differential Analyzer Component

Physical Description: steel (overall material)Measurements: overall: 3 cm x 2.6 cm x 3 cm; 1 3/16 in x 1 1/32 in x 1 3/16 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-fe03-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_693270

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