Pendulum Hall in NMHT
Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- Pendulum Hall (MHT)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Visitors on the lower level of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, are watching Foucault's Pendulum, which demonstrates the rotation of the earth.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 19, Folder: 5
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1970
- Standard number
- SIA2010-2908 or P64131-F or P64131-f.10
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Exhibit
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Interior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Earth--Rotation
- Exhibitions
- Foucault's pendulum
- Interiors
- Museum visitors
- Pendulum
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9343
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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