Object Details
- Bush, Vannevar
- Description
- In this large open arrangement of steel shafts, one shaft is set perpendicular to another. This was the carriage for the input table. The graph of a function to be entered into the machine was placed on an input table. Each carriage could be moved so that the pointer on it followed the curve. It was connected to a shaft which transported the pointer's motion to the appropriate part of the machine.
- For a related transaction, see 208694. Further components are also in other parts of transaction 1983.3002.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts, Computation Laboratory
- ca 1930
- ca 1930
- ID Number
- 1983.3002.01
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.01
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- Object Name
- differential analyzer component
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 cm x 89 cm x 67 cm; 3 15/16 in x 35 1/32 in x 26 3/8 in
- 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_693232
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-aa66-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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