Object Details
- Bush, Vannevar
- Bush, Vannevar
- Description
- This steel component has four parts. One is conical with a hole through the middle. One is a ring that fits around the base of the "cone"; one a disc that fits next to the ring and the fourth a screw that holds everything together.
- 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
- ca 1930
- ID Number
- 1983.3002.30
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.30
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- Object Name
- Differential Analyzer Component
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.6 cm x 5.5 cm x 5.6 cm; 2 7/32 in x 2 5/32 in x 2 7/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_693261
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-2630-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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