Object Details
maker
Ford Instrument Company
Description
This iron and aluminum mechanism was built by Ford Instrument Company for use on Dummy Director Mark I, an instrument built for testing purposes. It has an iron box with a shaft carrying a gear and three metal rings that emerge from one side. And a shaft with two rings emerges from another side. A mark on one of the rings under the gear reads: 112-099. A piece of decaying tape on another side reads: #36 1/2” (/) INTEGRATOR.
References:
A.B. Clymer, "The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell," Annals of the History of Computing, 15, #2, 1993, 19-34.
Accession file.
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 1956
ID Number
1982.0751.17
catalog number
1982.0751.17
accession number
1982.0751
Object Name
analog computing component
Physical Description
iron, aluminum (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 7 cm x 6.9 cm x 4.4 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 23/32 in x 1 23/32 in
place made
United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
See more items in
Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_690608