Whirling Table
name: label: maker
content: Troughton and Simms
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden whirling table (or centrifugal force apparatus) based on the form described in 1757 by James Ferguson, a Scottish astronomer, inventor, and itinerant science teacher. The “TROUGHTON & SIMMS / LONDON” inscription is that of an important instrument firm that began trading as such in 1826.
label: Description
content: Ref: James Ferguson, <i>Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics and Optics</i> (London, 1757), p. 33.
label: Description
content: Ebenezer Henderson, <i>The Life of James Ferguson</i> (Edinburgh, London, and Glasgow, 1867), pp. 217-218.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Alabama
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325960
label: catalog number
content: 325960
label: accession number
content: 317854
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Whirling Table
label: Object Name
content: whirling table
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall; extensions each: 8 1/8 in x 28 1/2 in x 3 in; 20.6375 cm x 72.39 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; whirling table: 10 3/8 in x 38 3/8 in x 16 5/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 97.4725 cm x 42.2275 cm