Object Details
maker
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
date made
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
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
Science & Mathematics
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_693232