Gravity Pendulum
name: label: maker
content: Kübel, Edward
notes: label: Description
content: The "Edward Kübel, Washington" inscription suggests that this pendulum was made between 1875, when Kübel began in business, and his death in 1896. The form is similar to that designed by the English scientist, Francis Baily, in the period 1827-1840.
label: Description
content: Ref: Victor Lenzen and Robert Multhauf, "Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century," <i>United States National Museum Bulletin</i> 240 (1965): 301-348.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Commerce. Weather Bureau
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316816
label: accession number
content: 228768
label: catalog number
content: 316816
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gravity pendulum
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 5/8 in; 95.5675 cm