Analog Computing Component - Integrator Component
date: label: date made
content: ca 1939
name: label: maker
content: Ford Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: This component has an aluminum frame with parts of other metals such as steel and brass. It includes shafts, gears, springs, and ball bearings. A metal label on one side reads: BUR. ORD. ASSEMBLY DRG. NO. (/) 186040 U.S. No. 75. Numerous parts have separate numbers
label: Description
content: A prior cataloging sheet indicates that this part had number 36 in the Ford Instrument Company collection. However, a tag with this number is on object 1982.0751.17. According to the donor’s list, number 36 was a component integrator used on dummy director Mark I which was built for testing purposes.
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
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: 1982.0751.20
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0751.20
label: accession number
content: 1982.0751
objectType: label: Object Name
content: analog computing component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (parts material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.8 cm x 22 cm x 27.6 cm; 3 27/32 in x 8 21/32 in x 10 7/8 in