Object Details
- Bush, Vannevar
- Description
- In a complete form of this brass and steel component, a gear rotates on a screw and is held in place by a cylinder. One component lacks the screw and cylinder. The other has a mark that reads: BOSTON. The Boston Gear Works was a firm founded by George B. Grant, an inventor od calculationg machines.
- 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
- 1983.3002.32
- catalog number
- 1983.3002.32
- nonaccession number
- 1983.3002
- Object Name
- Differential Analyzer Components
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.6 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 2 19/32 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 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_693263
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1504-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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