Gyroscope
name: label: maker
content: Froment, Paul-Gustave
notes: label: Description
content: Paul-Gustave Froment (1815-1865), an inventor and instrument maker in Paris, made Leon Foucault’s first gyroscope in the early 1850s. By the 1870s, the physical apparatus at Columbia College (now University) in New York City included "a complete Foucault gyroscope, by Froment." This is that instrument.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.322966
label: catalog number
content: 322966
label: accession number
content: 249200
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gyroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 50 cm x 27.5 cm x 20.5 cm; 19 11/16 in x 10 13/16 in x 8 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 8 1/2 in x 19 1/2 in x 11 in; 21.59 cm x 49.53 cm x 27.94 cm