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Bush: the differential analyzer

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Scientific and high-performance computing · ALGORITHM

Reference score100,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Described constructed mechanical differential analyzer for solving ODEs.

Scientific scope

The record is Bush's sole-author 1931 Journal of the Franklin Institute paper. It does not absorb earlier integraphs, Harold Hazen's and other collaborators' engineering contributions, the later Rockefeller analyzer or electronic digital computing.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Bush's sole-author 1931 Journal of the Franklin Institute paper. It does not absorb earlier integraphs, Harold Hazen's and other collaborators' engineering contributions, the later Rockefeller analyzer or electronic digital computing.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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