Component from the Bush Differential Analyzer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Bush, Vannevar
label: maker
content: Bush, Vannevar
notes: label: Description
content: This steel component has four parts. One is conical with a hole through the middle. One is a ring that fits around the base of the "cone"; one a disc that fits next to the ring and the fourth a screw that holds everything together.
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: 1983.3002.30
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3002.30
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Differential Analyzer Component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.6 cm x 5.5 cm x 5.6 cm; 2 7/32 in x 2 5/32 in x 2 7/32 in