Two Gears from the Bush Diferential Analyzer
Object Details
- Description
- These two steel spiral gears both have a brass cylinder down the middle. There are holes in the cylinders for a shaft. Dimensions are of each gear. First mark on one cylinder, written in pencil, reads: 300.
- 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
- 1983.3002.68
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.68
- maker
- Bush, Vannevar
- Object Name
- Differential Analyzer Components
- Physical Description
- steel (gears material)
- brass (shaft material)
- Measurements
- each: 1.8 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm; 23/32 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 9/16 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_693855
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