Packard's Falling Body Apparatus
name: label: user
content: The Rayen School
label: maker
content: L. E. Knott Apparatus Company
notes: label: Description
content: John C. Packard, a teacher in the Brookline High School, in Brookline, Mass., obtained a patent on a falling body demonstration apparatus in 1907, and assigned his rights to the L. E. Knott Apparatus Co. in Boston. The inscription on this example reads “Knott / Boston.”
label: Description
content: Ref: John C. Packard, “Apparatus for Determining the Law of Falling Bodies,” U.S. Patent 874,100 (Dec. 17, 1907), assigned to L. E. Knott Apparatus Co.
label: Description
content: L. E. Knott Instrument Co., <i>Catalog</i> (Boston, 1916), p. 101.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: used
content: United States: Ohio, Youngstown
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Zitto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0235.35
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0235.35
label: accession number
content: 2010.0235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Packard's Apparatus
label: Object Name
content: packard's apparatus
label: Object Name
content: Packard's apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 13 in x 14 in; 10.16 cm x 33.02 cm x 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 13 in x 14 in; 10.16 cm x 33.02 cm x 35.56 cm