Object Details
- Bush, Vannevar
- Description
- This steel shaft carries 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. The disc is marked: 4. There is no endpiece.
- Compare 1983.3002.04, 1983.3002.09, and 1983.3002.11.
- Parts of the Bush differential analyzer at NMAH 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
- 1983.3002.10
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.10
- Object Name
- Differential Analyzer Component
- Other Terms
- Differential Analyzer Component; Frontlash Unit (Incomplete)
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.8 cm x 28 cm x 10 cm; 2 11/16 in x 11 1/32 in x 3 15/16 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_693241
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-31bf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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