Component from the Bush Differential Analyzer
Component from the Bush Differential Analyzer
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- Description
- This square brass piece has three shafts going through it. One has a brass spur gear at one end and a smaller gear at the other end. The second shaft has a steel gear at one end and a toothed sixth-circle near the brass piece. The third, shorter ,shaft has a small gear mounted on it. A mark on the spur gear reads: BOSTON (/) D1133.
- 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: 13.1 cm x 34.5 cm x 12.8 cm; 5 5/32 in x 13 19/32 in x 5 1/32 in
- ID Number
- 1983.3002.87
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.87
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts, Computation Laboratory
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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