Drums for Frontlash Units from the Bush Differential Analyzer
Object Details
- Description
- These two flat round brass discs both have a hole down the middle for a shaft; a circle of smaller holes near the edge; and an indentation around the rim to hold a friction band (no friction band). Each has a small gear on one end. These are drums from frontlash units (compare to 1983.3002.04).
- 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
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts, Computation Laboratory
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1930
- ID Number
- 1983.3002.39
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.39
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- maker
- Bush, Vannevar
- Object Name
- Differential Analyzer Components
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.5 cm x 6.4 cm x 6.4 cm; 19/32 in x 2 17/32 in x 2 17/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
- Science & Mathematics
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_693826
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