Second Law of Motion Apparatus
name: label: user
content: Woodrow Wilson High School
label: maker
content: Central Scientific Company
notes: label: Description
content: Alfred Payson Gage (1836-1903) opened America’s first high school physics laboratory, at the Boston English High School, in 1880. He also wrote textbooks that were widely used, and designed simple instruments suitable for students. This Second Law of Motion apparatus was among those instruments. It has a spring hammer that propels one ball and releases another at the same instant. Both balls reach the floor at the same time, although one follows a parabolic arc while the other falls straight down. The inscription on this example reads “CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC CO / CHICAGO.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ziegler Electric Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue No. 8, of Physical Apparatus and Supplies</i> (Boston, 1896), p. 30.
label: Description
content: Central Scientific Co., <i>Physical and Chemical Apparatus</i> (Chicago, 1909), p. 71.
label: Description
content: Steven Turner, “The Reluctant Instrument Maker: A. P. Gage and the Introduction of the Student Laboratory,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 18 (2005): 40-61.
label: Description
content: Rufus P. Williams, “Alfred Payson Gage,” <i>School Science</i> 3 (May 1903): 49-52.
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: 2010.3095.004
label: catalog number
content: 2010.3095.004
label: nonaccession number
content: 2010.3095
objectType: label: Object Name
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label: Object Name
content: Second Law of Motion apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 10 in x 9 in; 8.89 cm x 25.4 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 10 in x 9 in; 8.89 cm x 25.4 cm x 22.86 cm