Object Details
- Bush, Vannevar
- Description
- The steel shaft has a steel cylinder next to a thin rotating brass drum. A friction band goes around the drum and a planetary gear train links it to a steel disc. A brass end piece fits over the shaft and has an internal gear. The end piece comes off easily. This frontlash unit on the Bush differential analyzer compensated for the backlash in a given drive between the output shaft of the unit and input shaft of an adjacent unit.
- A mark on the disc and end piece reads: 8.
- Compare to 1983.3002.09, .10 and .11.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts, Computation Laboratory
- ca 1930
- ID Number
- 1983.3002.04
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.04
- Object Name
- differential analyzer component
- Other Terms
- Frontlash Unit
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7.6 cm x 32 cm x 9 19/32 in; 3 in x 12 19/32 in x 24.384 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
- 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_693235
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-3acf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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