Spiral Gear from the Bush Diferential Analyzer
Object Details
- Description
- This is a steel spiral gear with a hole in the middle. A mark on it reads: 1463356.
- 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
- 1983.3002.74
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.74
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- maker
- Bush, Vannevar
- Object Name
- Differential Analyzer Component
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.4 cm x 2.9 cm x 2.9 cm; 9/16 in x 1 5/32 in x 1 5/32 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_693861
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