Object Details
- Description
- This steel and brass component served as an adder, it connected two shafts, a and b, whose sum c = a + b was to be obtained. The adder consists of a differential gear. The gear ratio was chosen so that the sum of the revolutions of shafts a and b would equal a revolution of shaft c.
- Parts of Bush differential analyzer at NMAH have museum numbers MA.314824 and 1983.3002.01 through 1983.3002.89.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Bush, Vannevar
- date made
- ca 1930
- ca 1930
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts, Computation Laboratory
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7.8 cm x 8 cm x 8 cm; 3 1/16 in x 3 5/32 in x 3 5/32 in
- Object Name
- differential analyzer component
