REAC Reeves Analog
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Reeves Instrument Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: In 1946, the U.S. Office of Naval Research established Project Cyclone at the Reeves Instrument Corporation in New York City, N.Y. Reeves - through Project Cyclone - would produce analog aids to computation and design for military purposes into the mid-1960s. One early customer for the Reeves Analog Computer of REAC was the hydromechanics laboratory at the U.S. Navy's David W. Taylor Model Basin in Carderock, Md. There REACS were used in the design of ships and submarines.This museum number covers two parts of a REAC transferred from there to the Smithsonian, probably in the late 1960s.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Accession file 1987.0816.
label: Description
content: James S. Small, <I>The Analogue Alternative: the Electronic Analogue Computer in Britain and the USA, 1930-1975</I>, London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 87-93.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: David Taylor Model Basin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0816.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0816.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0816
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Analog Computer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall - each part: 210.8 cm x 53.3 cm x 46.9 cm; 83 in x 20 31/32 in x 18 15/32 in