Inertia Demonstration Device
notes: label: Description
content: This simple inertia demonstration device—consisting of a card, a ball resting on a pillar, and a spring mechanism—shows that when the card is struck, it will fly off and the ball will remain in place. This may date from around 1846 when New York State issued a charter to the Collegiate Department of the Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution, the precursor institution to Colgate University.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1856), vol. 1, p. 141.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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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: PH.318734
label: catalog number
content: 318734
label: accession number
content: 234695
objectType: label: Object Name
content: inertia demonstration apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/8 in x 12 1/16 in x 4 1/8 in; 33.3375 cm x 30.63875 cm x 10.4775 cm