Component from the Bush Differential Analyzer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Bush, Vannevar
notes: label: Description
content: This component has a flat steel base painted black. This holds a brass spur gear linked to a gear with a dial on it. The dial is numbered 0; 2; 4; 6; 8; 10; 12; 12; 10; 8; 6; 4; 2. It has a piece of tape on it numbered from 13 to 26.
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: 1983.3002.82
label: catalog number
content: 1983.3002.82
label: nonaccession number
content: 1983.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Differential Analyzer Component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 10.4 cm x 12.3 cm; 31/32 in x 4 3/32 in x 4 27/32 in