Whirling Table
notes: label: Description
content: An estimate of U.S. Military Academy expenses for the year 1841 included $140 for a whirling table “for illustrating the theory of central forces, and for showing experimentally the law of the planetary motions and of gravitation.” This is probably that instrument.
label: Description
content: Ref: James Ferguson, Lectures on Select Subjects (London, 1764), vol. ii, p. 18.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.315745.01
label: accession number
content: 217544
label: catalog number
content: 315745
label: catalog number
content: 315745.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: whirling table