Incomplete Frontlash Unit 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 carries a steel cylinder next to a thin rotating brass drum. A friction band goes around the drum and a planetary gear train links it to a steel disc. The disc is marked: 4. There is no endpiece.
label: Description
content: Compare 1983.3002.04, 1983.3002.09, and 1983.3002.11.
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: 1983.3002.10
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3002
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3002.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Differential Analyzer Component
label: Other Terms
content: Differential Analyzer Component; Frontlash Unit (Incomplete)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.8 cm x 28 cm x 10 cm; 2 11/16 in x 11 1/32 in x 3 15/16 in