Dec 4, 2008

Salem on History | Bush Builds First Differential Analyzer

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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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Salem on History | Bush Builds First Differential Analyzer

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Electrical Engineering Problems Become More Complex

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