Integrator, LASICO Model 130-V
date: label: date made
content: 1982
name: label: maker
content: Los Angeles Scientific Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: This mechanical integrator has a metal framework painted off-white that carries two guide wheels, two reference guides (one for moment of inertia and the other for moment of area), and a tracer arm with two tracer points. The guide wheels fit into a metal rail. Two reference guides also fit into the rail and a metal counter weight fits into the framework, resting on the other side of the rail.
label: Description
content: All the pieces of the instrument other than the rail fit into a leather-covered wooden case. Labeled photographs of designer Maxmilian Berktold and Susan Jen are inside of the case, with labels. The rail (2011.0043.04.1)is longer than the case is wide (it measures 77 cm. w. x 5 cm. d. x 1.3 cm. h.), and is stored separately.
label: Description
content: There also are pamphlets entitled “The Lasico Mechanical Integrator” (2011.0043.04.2) and “Mathematical Engineering Instruments,” (2011.0043.04.3) as well as a leaflet entitled “LASICO Mechanical Integrators” (2011.0043.04.4) This instrument is most like one shown in the leaflet, which dates from 1980.
label: Description
content: The model 130-V mechanical integrator had a catalog price of $1500.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Maxmilian Berktold
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0043.04
label: accession number
content: 2011.0043
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0043.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: integrator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 cm x 44 cm x 41 cm; 4 23/32 in x 17 5/16 in x 16 5/32 in
label: Measurements
content: rail: 1.3 cm x 77 cm x 5 cm; 1/2 in x 30 5/16 in x 1 31/32 in