Object Details
- Description
- Benjamin Theophilus Moore, a British mathematician and engineer who conducted hydraulic experiments on the Nile in 1873, submitted this model of a water current meter to the U.S. Patent Office in 1875.
- Ref: Benjamin T. Moore, “Improvement in Ships’ Logs,” U.S. Patent 169,024 (1875).
- Benjamin T. Moore, On a Current Meter, a Deep-Sea Current Indicator, and an Improved Ship’s Log (London 1876).
- Arthur H. Frazier, Water Current Meters in the Smithsonian Collections of the National Museum of History and Technology (Washington, D.C., 1974), p. 68.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1875
- ID Number
- PH.308551
- accession number
- 89797
- catalog number
- 308551
- patent number
- 169,024
- Object Name
- Water Current Meter
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in x 20 in; 24.13 cm x 15.875 cm x 50.8 cm
- overall: 4 3/4 in x 20 1/4 in x 5 in; 12.065 cm x 51.435 cm x 12.7 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Water Currents
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Patent Models
- Record ID
- nmah_1434221
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-4560-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
