Torsion Pendulum
name: label: maker
content: L. E. Knott Apparatus Company
notes: label: Description
content: The “Knott, Boston” inscription on one leg of this instrument refers to L. E. Knott, an apparatus firm that began in business in 1895. Knott termed it an Improved Sabine’s Torsion Pendulum for determining the moment of torsion of a wire and the moment of inertia of a ring.
label: Description
content: Ref: Wallace Clement Sabine, <i>A Student’s Manual of a Laboratory Course in Physical Measurements</i> (Boston, 1893), pp. 30-32.
label: Description
content: L. E. Knott, <i>Catalogue of Physical Instruments</i> (Boston, 1912), p. 129,
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315752
label: catalog number
content: 315752
label: accession number
content: 217544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: torsion pendulum
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 5 3/8 in x 4 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 13.6525 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 1/8 in x 13 5/8 in x 11 1/8 in; 61.2775 cm x 34.6075 cm x 28.2575 cm