Packard's Falling Body Apparatus
name: label: maker
content: Sargent-Welch Company
notes: label: Description
content: John C. Packard, a teacher in the Brookline High School, in Brookline, Mass., patented a falling body demonstration apparatus in 1907, and assigned his rights to the L. E. Knott Apparatus Co. in Boston. The inscription on this example reads “Knott / Boston.”
label: Description
content: Ref: John C. Packard, “Apparatus for Determining the Law of Falling Bodies,” U.S. Patent 874,100 (Dec. 17, 1907), assigned to L. E. Knott Apparatus Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: used
content: United States: Ohio, Youngstown
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Zitto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0235.30
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0235.30
label: accession number
content: 2010.0235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: falling body apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 36.5 cm x 30.5 cm; 1 9/16 in x 14 3/8 in x 12 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 14 1/2 in x 12 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 36.83 cm x 32.385 cm