Object Details
- Ford Instrument Company
- Description
- This object has a metal plate box construction, allen cap screws, and metal gears and ball bearings. It appears to be a two unit component integrator . A tag on the bottom reads: BUR. ORD. ASSEMBLY ORG. NO. (/) 210291 SER. NO. 1475 . Two other tags read: 166375 174. Two marks in ink read: 209428-5. According to the accession file, the two unit component integrator was developed by Hannibal Ford for the computer Mark I.
- References:
- A.B. Clymer, "The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell," Annals of the History of Computing, 15, #2, 1993, 19-34.
- Accession file.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Ford Instrument Company, Division of Sperry Rand Corporation
- ca 1940
- ID Number
- 1982.0751.05
- catalog number
- 1982.0751.05
- accession number
- 1982.0751
- Object Name
- analog computing component
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 cm x 7.7 cm x 11.6 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 1/32 in x 4 9/16 in
- place made
- United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_690603
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-0cb1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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