Moving the Pendulum, NMAH
Object Details
- Author
- Tinsley, Jeffrey Wayne 1947-2017
- Subject
- Steede, Lyle
- Tearman, Tom
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in TORCH, September 1987
- Summary
- Exhibits staffers (l-r): Tom Tearman, Lyle Steede and Dick Wakefield dismantle the Foucault's Pendulum to make way for "A Material World." The pendulum was moved upstairs to the Mall level and a glass floor was installed beneath it so that it could be seen from below.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 5 Folder September 1987
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1987
- Standard number
- 87-10467-8
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Event
- Physical description
- Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Exhibitions
- Foucault's pendulum
- Renovations
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Special events
- Wakefield, Dick
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9020
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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