Kater 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, and used to measure the local acceleration of gravity. This example 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
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: 1992.0477.09.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0477
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0477.09.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pendulum, reversible (Kater's pendulum)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.2 cm x 95.9 cm x 11.2 cm; 4 7/16 in x 37 3/4 in x 4 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 4 1/8 in x 37 5/8 in x 4 1/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 95.5675 cm x 10.4775 cm