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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- Vannevar Bush · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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