Peirce Gravity Pendulum
date: label: date made
content: ca 1881
name: label: Associated Name
content: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
notes: label: Description
content: This invariable (but not reversible) pendulum was designed by Charles Sanders Peirce, and produced by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in the early 1880s.
label: Description
content: Ref: 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: Description
content: E. D. Preston, "Determinations of Gravity and the Magnetic Elements in Connection with the United States Expedition to the West Coast of Africa, 1889-90," <i>Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for 1889-90</i>, Appendix 12, plate 58, fig. I.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316503
label: accession number
content: 225703
label: catalog number
content: 316503
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gravity pendulum
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 in x 2 1/2 in; 137.16 cm x 6.35 cm