Analog Computing Component - Integrator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1956
name: label: maker
content: Ford Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: This iron and aluminum mechanism was built by Ford Instrument Company for use on Dummy Director Mark I, an instrument built for testing purposes. It has an iron box with a shaft carrying a gear and three metal rings that emerge from one side. And a shaft with two rings emerges from another side. A mark on one of the rings under the gear reads: 112-099. A piece of decaying tape on another side reads: #36 1/2” (/) INTEGRATOR.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: A.B. Clymer, "The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell," <I>Annals of the History of Computing</I>, 15, #2, 1993, 19-34.
label: Description
content: Accession file.
label: Description
content: K.C. Epstein, <I>Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State<I>, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2024.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Mechanical Integrators and Analyzers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ford Instrument Company, Division of Sperry Rand Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0751.17
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0751.17
label: accession number
content: 1982.0751
objectType: label: Object Name
content: analog computing component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, aluminum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 6.9 cm x 4.4 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 23/32 in x 1 23/32 in