Carriage and Tracer for an Output Table from the Bush Differential Analyzer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Bush, Vannevar
notes: label: Description
content: The rotation of a shaft representing results calculated by the differential analyzer were transmitted to a tracer that drew the results on an output table. This is the carriage for the tracer point, with tracer point. It is a large open arrangement of steel shafts, with one shaft is perpendicular to a double set.
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: 1983.3002.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3002
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3002.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: differential analyzer component
label: Other Terms
content: Output Table
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: barss (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.5 cm x 102 cm x 74 cm; 4 17/32 in x 40 5/32 in x 29 1/8 in