Object Details
- Georg and Edvard Scheutz
- Description
- When the Scheutz difference engine was shipped to the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York, in 1857, all the instructions provided for its use were this set of drawings and a letter explaining the procedure for converting the machine from operation in one number system to another.
- The frail tan paper sheet has a white cloth backing. On the sheet are 14 drawings labeled Fig. 1 through Figure 14. The figures are similar to but not identical with those in the final specifications for British Patent A.D. 1854, No. 2214, as reproduced in Merzbach. The numbering is somewhat different.
- For a related object, see the Scheutz difference engine, MA.323659.
- Reference:
- Merzbach, Uta C., Georg Scheutz and the First Printing Calculator, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Adele and Erwin Tomash
- ca 1857
- ID Number
- 1988.0798.01
- accession number
- 1988.0798
- catalog number
- 1988.0798.01
- Object Name
- drawings, set
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- cloth (backing material)
- Measurements
- overall: 26 in x 16 5/8 in; 66.04 cm x 42.2275 cm
- place made
- Sweden: Stockholm, Stockholm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Calculating Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1005138
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-a3f3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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