Analog Computing Component -Two Unit Component Integrator for the Computer Mark I.
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Ford Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: This object has a metal plate box construction, allen cap screws, and metal gears and ball bearings. It appears to be a two unit component integrator . A tag on the bottom reads: BUR. ORD. ASSEMBLY ORG. NO. (/) 210291 SER. NO. 1475 . Two other tags read: 166375 174. Two marks in ink read: 209428-5. According to the accession file, the two unit component integrator was developed by Hannibal Ford for the computer Mark I.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: A.B. Clymer, "The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell," <I>Annals of the History of Computing</I>, 15, #2, 1993, 19-34.
label: Description
content: Accession file.
label: Description
content: K.C. Epstein, <I>Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State<I>, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2024.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ford Instrument Company, Division of Sperry Rand Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0751.05
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0751.05
label: accession number
content: 1982.0751
objectType: label: Object Name
content: analog computing component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 7.7 cm x 11.6 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 1/32 in x 4 9/16 in