Compound Gyroscope on Stand
name: label: maker
content: Newton & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1853, Julius Plücker, a professor of physics at Bonn, published an account of the double gyroscope recently devised by Friedrich Fessel, an instrument maker in Cologne. The "NEWTON & CO., 3 FLEET ST., LONDON" inscription on this example refers to a firm that advertised it as “Wheatstone’s Compound Gyroscope.” The reference here was to Charles Wheatstone, who described a slightly modified example of Fessel’s instrument to the Royal Society of London.
label: Description
content: Ref: Plücker, “Ueber die Fessel’sche rotationsmaschine,” <i>Annalen der physik und chemie</i> 178 (1853): 174-177.
label: Description
content: “Fessel’s Gyroscope,” <i>Scientific American</i> 10 (Jan. 13, 1855): 138, from <i>London Artisan</i>.
label: Description
content: C[harles] Wheatstone, “On Fessel’s Gyroscope,” <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society of London</i> 7 (1856): 43-48 (received April 1854).
label: Description
content: Newton & Co., ad in <i>Nature</i> (Nov. 13, 1913): cv.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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.336580
label: catalog number
content: 336580
label: accession number
content: 1978.0423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gyroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 4 3/4 in x 13 in; 25.4 cm x 12.065 cm x 33.02 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 11 in x 8 3/4 in x 13 5/8 in; 27.94 cm x 22.225 cm x 34.6075 cm