Object Details
maker
Ford Instrument Company
Description
This component has an aluminum frame with parts of other metals such as steel and brass. It includes shafts, gears, springs, and ball bearings. A metal label on one side reads: BUR. ORD. ASSEMBLY DRG. NO. (/) 186040 U.S. No. 75. Numerous parts have separate numbers
A prior cataloging sheet indicates that this part had number 36 in the Ford Instrument Company collection. However, a tag with this number is on object 1982.0751.17. According to the donor’s list, number 36 was a component integrator used on dummy director Mark I which was built for testing purposes.
K.C. Epstein, Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Ford Instrument Company, Division of Sperry Rand Corporation
date made
ca 1939
ID Number
1982.0751.20
catalog number
1982.0751.20
accession number
1982.0751
Object Name
analog computing component
Physical Description
aluminum (frame material)
steel (parts material)
Measurements
overall: 9.8 cm x 22 cm x 27.6 cm; 3 27/32 in x 8 21/32 in x 10 7/8 in
place made
United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_690607