Analog Computing Component - Mechanical Fuze Cam and Gearing
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Ford Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: This assembly with barrel cam, cam follower, and associated gearing was used on the Computer Mark I fire control device. It has a metal frame, with a rotating barrel cam and an extensive array of gears. A tag on top reads: MECHANICAL (/) FUZE. Another tag on top reads: BUR. ORD. ASSEMBLY DRG. NO. (/) 222874 SER. NO. W368. Another mark reads: 7H 10. Another tag reads: E2 = 89.68 ˚ (/) R3 = 15,040 (/) F = 50.00 (/) USE 1/16 DIA. ROD.
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
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: 1982.0751.08
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0751.08
label: accession number
content: 1982.0751
objectType: label: Object Name
content: analog computing component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.8 cm x 30.5 cm x 22.3 cm; 7 in x 12 in x 8 25/32 in