Centrifugal Force Demonstrator
name: label: maker
content: Pye Limited
notes: label: Description
content: Robinson’s Centrifugal Force Machine was designed for the quantitative measurement of centrifugal force. The “PYE & Co. CAMBRIDGE” inscription on this example refers to an instrument firm that was founded in 1896 by William Pye, superintendent of the Cavendish Laboratory workshop. Thomas Allen White Robinson was an assistant manager of the firm.
label: Description
content: Ref: Thomas Allen White Robinson, “A Piece of Apparatus or Machine for Measuring the Centrifugal Force of a Weight Revolving at Various Speeds and at Various Distances from the Axis of Rotation,” British Patent 14,789 (application dated June 11, 1911).
label: Description
content: W. G. Pye & Co., <i>Catalogue of Scientific Apparatus</i> (Cambridge, 1914). P. 32.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Cambridge
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319245
label: catalog number
content: 319245
label: accession number
content: 235478
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Whirling Table
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 27 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in; 20.6375 cm x 69.215 cm x 24.13 cm