Geometric Model, Fluid Flow Mapper Record
date: label: date made
content: 1950
notes: label: Description
content: This ceramic disc has a white circular hole on one side, with numerous blue lines emerging from the hole and spreading toward the edge. A signature on the back reads: ADM (/) 1-4-1950. A card stored with the slab describes the operation of the mapper, and indicates that the instrument was perfected by Professor A. D. Moore.
label: Description
content: The flow of fluids can be used both to study problems of fluid flow itself and to simulate fields associated with electrostatics, electromagnetism, heat, and chemical diffusion. Arthur Dearth Moore (1895-1989), a member of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, developed a “fluid flow mapper” in the course of the 1940s. In January of 1950, he produced this record.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: A.D. Moore, “Fields from Fluid Flow Mappers,” <I>Journal of Applied Physics</I>, August, 1949, vol. 20, pp. 790-804.
label: Description
content: University of Michigan, “Open House Displays,” <I>The Michigan Technic</I>, April 1951, vol. 69, p. 16.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Ann Arbor
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Department of Mathematics, The University of Michigan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0795.45
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0795.45
label: accession number
content: 1982.0795
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scientific record
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .8 cm x 20.3 cm x 20.3 cm; 5/16 in x 8 in x 8 in