Cross Shaft 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 runs through a series of steel rings, each with a gear next to it. One ring is attached to one gear. Each ring has one protrusion. Seventeen rings are of one size, twenty-two of a larger size. Each ring is marked: BOSTON. The Boston Gear Works manufactured several parts used in the Bush differential analyzer.
label: Description
content: Parts of the Bush differential analyzer at NMAH have museum numbers MA.314824 and 1983.3002.01 through 1983.3002.89.
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: 1983.3002.05
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3002
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3002.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: differential analyzer component
label: Other Terms
content: Cross Shaft
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 67.5 cm x 4 cm; 1 9/16 in x 26 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in