Component from the Bush Differential Analyzer
Object Details
- Description
- This steel plate supports two gear trains that are mirror images of one another. A gear on the front of the plate links with one or the other train. The dials on the front of the plate alter the position of the gears in the gear trains.
- 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
- 1983.3002.88
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.88
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- maker
- Bush, Vannevar
- Object Name
- Differential Analyzer Component
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.8 cm x 37 cm x 20 cm; 8 31/32 in x 14 9/16 in x 7 7/8 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_693875
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