Object Details
maker
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
date made
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
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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_693263