Bush Builds First Differential Analyzer
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Science, Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Inventors, Engineering, Engineers
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: Massachusetts, New England
- Date: 1925-1930
Article abstract: Vannevar Bush and his team at MIT built an electromechanical device that was capable of solving differential equations.
Electrical Engineering Problems Become More Complex
After World War I, electrical engineers encountered increasingly difficult differential equations as they worked on vacuum-tube circuitry, telephone lines, and, particularly, long-distance power transmission lines. These calculations were lengthy and tedious. Two of the many steps required to solve them were to draw a graph manually and then to determine the area...
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