Peirce Gravity Pendulum No. 4
name: label: Associated Name
content: U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
notes: label: Description
content: This is the fourth and final Peirce pendulum that the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey produced in the early 1880s. It is marked: "Peirce No. 4 USC&G Survey." It may have been used at the base station located at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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: C. H. Swick, <i>Modern Methods of Measuring the Intensity of Gravity </i>(Washington, D.C.: United States Coast & Geodetic Survey, 1921).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Commerce. Coast and Geodetic Survey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319531
label: accession number
content: 239023
label: catalog number
content: 319531
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gravity pendulum
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 62 in x 2 3/4 in; 157.48 cm x 6.985 cm