Dynamometer
date: label: date made
content: nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: Dynamometers measure strength, of people, animals, and machines. Edmé Régnier—a gunmaker in Paris who served on the Commission for firearms during the French Revolution, and later as the founding Director of the Musée d’Artillerie—introduced the first successful form in the late 1790s. This instrument is of that sort. The primary inscription reads “Dynamomètre de Régnier / à Beau-Grenelle / Banlieu-de-Paris”. Another reads “TM”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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: PH.319453
label: catalog number
content: 319453
label: accession number
content: 238494
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dynamometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 13 1/4 in x 12 1/4 in; 8.89 cm x 33.655 cm x 31.115 cm