Object Details
maker
General Electric Company
Description
This silver-colored cylinder has a black plastic midsection. On one end there is a series of three discs, one of whcih has jagged teeth. These are a unit and rotate on a single axle protruding from the cylinder. Five covered wires exit from the other end.of the cylinder. A mark on the object reads: Synchro Generator 5 g. mk (/) mod 3 (/) 115/90V go~Serial no. 547603 (/) Ford Instrument Co., Inc. (/) . . . .
For general information about the UCLA differential analyzer, see 1983.0023.001.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1947
ca 19451947
ID Number
1983.0023.036
catalog number
1983.0023.036
accession number
1983.0023
Object Name
differential analyzer component
Physical Description
aluminum (overall material)
plastic (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 5 cm x 12 cm x 3 cm; 1 31/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 1 3/16 in
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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_689991