Incomplete Frontlash Unit from the Bush Differential Analyzer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Bush, Vannevar
notes: label: Description
content: This steel shaft has a steel cylinder next to a thin rotating brass drum. A friction band goes around the drum. The central gear train is missing. There is then a brass disc fixed to the shaft and a brass end piece that fits over the shaft and has an internal gear. The disc and end piece are marked: 5. This is part of a frontlash unit.
label: Description
content: Compare to 1983.3002.04, 1983.3002.10., and 1983,3002.11.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts, Computation Laboratory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.3002.09
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3002
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3002.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Differential Analyzer Component
label: Other Terms
content: Differential Analyzer Component; Frontlash Unit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.7 cm x 30 cm x 10.3 cm; 2 5/8 in x 11 13/16 in x 4 1/16 in