Documentation on Stepper Motors
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content: Electric motors generally convert electrical signals into continuous motions. However, devices known as stepper motors produce motions (generally rotations) in discrete quantities or steps, which can be most useful in designing digital computers. These two documents describe stepper motors available for digital control systems in the mid-1970s. Both were published by North American Philips Controls Corporation of Cheshire, Connecticut. The publications are:
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content: 1. a leaflet entitled "Stepper Motor IC Driver Series SAA1027." It has holes punched on left side and is copyrighted 1977. It specifecally described an integrated circuit driver.
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content: 2. A pamphlet entitled 'Stepper Motor Handbook " (undated).
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content: Currently not on view
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content: United States: Connecticut, Cheshire
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Gift of Barry S. Berg
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2012.3060.35
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content: 2012.3060
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content: 2012.3060.35
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content: documentation
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content: overall: .3 cm x 22 cm x 28 cm; 1/8 in x 8 21/32 in x 11 1/32 in