Cycloidal Pendulum
notes: label: Description
content: This model of a cycloidal pendulum may date from around 1846 when New York State issued a charter to the Collegiate Department of the Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution, the precursor institution to Colgate University.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Model of Cycloidal Pendulum with Apparatus for Illustrating the Theory of the Pendulum,” in Joseph M. Wightman, <i>Catalogue and Prices of Philosophical Apparatus</i> (Boston, 185?), p. 3.
label: Description
content: Joseph M. Wightman, <i>Select Experiments in Natural Philosophy</i> (Boston, 1853).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.318736
label: catalog number
content: 318736
label: accession number
content: 234695
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cycloidal pendulum
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 19 in x 5 in; 55.88 cm x 48.26 cm x 12.7 cm