Object Details
- Description
- This invariable (but not reversible) pendulum was designed by Charles Sanders Peirce, and produced by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in the early 1880s.
- Ref: Victor Lenzen and Robert Multhauf, "Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century," United States National Museum Bulletin 240 (1965): 301-348.
- E. D. Preston, "Determinations of Gravity and the Magnetic Elements in Connection with the United States Expedition to the West Coast of Africa, 1889-90," Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for 1889-90, Appendix 12, plate 58, fig. I.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
- ca 1881
- ID Number
- PH.316503
- accession number
- 225703
- catalog number
- 316503
- Object Name
- gravity pendulum
- Measurements
- overall: 54 in x 2 1/2 in; 137.16 cm x 6.35 cm
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
- Record ID
- nmah_1029653
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-cc8a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
