Water Current Meter (replica)
notes: label: Description
content: This is a modern replica of the water current meter devised by Pierre-Louis-Georges Du Buat (1734-1809), a French hydraulic engineer. In 1788, after Du Buat had sent him his recent books on hydraulics, George Washington replied that “the general utility of this subject renders it highly worthy the attention of those who have the taste for Physics, and are desireous of promoting the interests of society.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur H. Frazier, <i>Water Current Meters in the Smithsonian Collections of the </i> (Washington, 1974).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317672
label: catalog number
content: 317672
label: accession number
content: 231963
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Du Buat's Moulinet (replica)
label: Object Name
content: current meter (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 in x 4 7/8 in x 25 in; 88.9 cm x 12.3825 cm x 63.5 cm