Component from the Bush Differential Analyzer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Bush, Vannevar
notes: label: Description
content: This square brass piece has three shafts going through it. One has a brass spur gear at one end and a smaller gear at the other end. The second shaft has a steel gear at one end and a toothed sixth-circle near the brass piece. The third, shorter ,shaft has a small gear mounted on it. A mark on the spur gear reads: BOSTON (/) D1133.
label: Description
content: Parts of the Bush differential analyzer surviving at the Smithsonian 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: 1983.3002.87
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3002.87
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Differential Analyzer Component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.1 cm x 34.5 cm x 12.8 cm; 5 5/32 in x 13 19/32 in x 5 1/32 in