Hall's Carriage
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content: The Rayen School
notes: label: Description
content: Hall’s carriage is a simple 4-wheeled cart used for inclined plane demonstrations that was introduced by Edwin H. Hall (1855-1938), a physicist at Harvard University. The “Cambridge Botanical” inscription on this example refers to the Cambridge Botanical Supply Co., a firm that was located in Cambridge, Mass., in the early 1890s, and later in Waverly, Ma.
label: Description
content: Edwin H. Hall and Joseph Y. Bergen, <i>A Text-Book of Physics, Largely Experimental</i> (New York, 1892), pp. 157-158
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: Ohio, Youngstown
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Zitto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0235.15
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content: 2010.0235.15
label: accession number
content: 2010.0235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hall's carriage
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content: Hall's carriage
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 8.255 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 3 1/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 7.9375 cm x 16.51 cm