Two Components from the Bush Differential Analyzer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Bush, Vannevar
notes: label: Description
content: In a complete form of this brass and steel component, a gear rotates on a screw and is held in place by a cylinder. One component lacks the screw and cylinder. The other has a mark that reads: BOSTON. The Boston Gear Works was a firm founded by George B. Grant, an inventor od calculationg machines.
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: 1983.3002.32
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3002.32
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Differential Analyzer Components
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.6 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 2 19/32 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in