Electromechanical Computer Component, ASSC Mark I Relay
Electromechanical Computer Component, ASSC Mark I Relay
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- Description
- This is a component of the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), known otherwise as the Harvard Mark I. The four-pole double-throw relay has one plug. The single coil is silver-colored.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Computer Component
- Electromechanical Computer Component
- Date made
- 1944
- maker
- IBM
- Harvard University
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge, Harvard University
- Measurements
- overall: 1.3 cm x 4.8 cm x 5.1 cm; 1/2 in x 1 7/8 in x 2 in
- ID Number
- MA.324282
- accession number
- 248831
- catalog number
- 324282
- Credit Line
- Gift of President and Fellows of Harvard University
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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