Stand for a Kater's Reversible Gravity Pendulum
notes: label: Description
content: The Kater reversible free swinging pendulum was invented in 1817 by British physicist and army captain Henry Kater, for use in measuring the local acceleration of gravity. This stand for a Kater pendulum came from Bowdoin College where, in the late nineteenth century, students in the elementary physics course learned to determine “the force of gravity with Kater’s pendulum.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Bowdoin College, <i>Catalogue</i> (Brunswick, Me., 1890), pp.28-29.
label: Description
content: Victor Lenzen and Robert Multhauf, "Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century," <i>United States National Museum Bulletin</i> 240 (1965): 301-348.
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: 1992.0477.09.02
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0477.09.02
label: accession number
content: 1992.0477
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stand for reversing pendulum
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 93.5 cm x 35 cm x 22 cm; 36 13/16 in x 13 3/4 in x 8 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 1/4 in x 13 3/4 in x 8 5/8 in; 92.075 cm x 34.925 cm x 21.9075 cm