Object Details
maker
Ford Instrument Company
Description
This object has a metal plate box construction, allen cap screws, and metal gears and ball bearings. It appears to be a two unit component integrator . A tag on the bottom reads: BUR. ORD. ASSEMBLY ORG. NO. (/) 210291 SER. NO. 1475 . Two other tags read: 166375 174. Two marks in ink read: 209428-5. According to the accession file, the two unit component integrator was developed by Hannibal Ford for the computer Mark I.
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 1940
ID Number
1982.0751.05
catalog number
1982.0751.05
accession number
1982.0751
Object Name
analog computing component
Physical Description
metal (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 10 cm x 7.7 cm x 11.6 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 1/32 in x 4 9/16 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_690603