Sheet of Drawings of the Scheutz Difference Engine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1857
name: label: maker
content: Georg and Edvard Scheutz
notes: label: Description
content: When the Scheutz difference engine was shipped to the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York, in 1857, all the instructions provided for its use were this set of drawings and a letter explaining the procedure for converting the machine from operation in one number system to another.
label: Description
content: The frail tan paper sheet has a white cloth backing. On the sheet are 14 drawings labeled Fig. 1 through Figure 14. The figures are similar to but not identical with those in the final specifications for British Patent A.D. 1854, No. 2214, as reproduced in Merzbach. The numbering is somewhat different.
label: Description
content: For a related object, see the Scheutz difference engine, MA.323659.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Merzbach, Uta C., <I>Georg Scheutz and the First Printing Calculator</I>, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Sweden: Stockholm, Stockholm
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Adele and Erwin Tomash
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0798.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0798
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0798.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawings, set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (backing material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 in x 16 5/8 in; 66.04 cm x 42.2275 cm