Component from the Bush Differential Analyzer
Component from the Bush Differential Analyzer
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- Description
- This heavy metal plate holds two linked gears on one side and a handle that turns them on the other. A brass cylinder is at opposite end of the plate from the handle.
- 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
- date made
- ca 1930
- maker
- Bush, Vannevar
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20.7 cm x 17 cm x 8 cm; 8 5/32 in x 6 11/16 in x 3 5/32 in
- ID Number
- 1983.3002.85
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.85
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- 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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