collision balls pendulum
Date1850-1900
Inventory Number1998-1-1664
ClassificationPercussion Apparatus
Subject
Maker
American
Cultural Region
Dimensions68 × 52 × 17.5 cm (26 3/4 × 20 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)
Material
DescriptionThis instrument consists of three roughly identical solid ivory spheres and a smaller one, all suspended by string from a wooden frame. The latter is equipped with a beat plate, numbered from zero to four (centered on zero). The spheres can be attached at various positions on top. The rectangular base is supported by four round feet.
Small white "M" painted at base of stand. It was stamped twice, in ink, with old Harvard inventory number: "18 26". There is also another old number: "15.2.1".
Small white "M" painted at base of stand. It was stamped twice, in ink, with old Harvard inventory number: "18 26". There is also another old number: "15.2.1".
Signedunsigned
Breton Frères
Date: circa 1850
Accessories: (b) top, (c) ivory balls
Object number: DW0317a
Henry Hughes & Son, Ltd.
Date: circa 1915
Object number: 5335a
W.G. Pye & Company, Ltd.
Date: circa 1920
Accessories: 5 accessory parts:
2 magnetic rods with spherical ends;
one brass notch;
needle with tip inserted into cork;
Object number: 1997-1-0662
Walter Hibbert
Date: early 20th Century
Accessories: 7 accessory parts:
2 magnetic rods with spherical ends;
4 brass notches;
needle with tip inserted into cork;
Object number: 1997-1-0661
John Cuthbertson
Date: 1770-1815
Accessories: brown storage box, descriptive tag, thin strip of paper in box with the inscription "lucernal microscope" in David P. Wheatland's handwriting (which refers to figs. 47-48 and 51 in this series), page from the book "Old Science and Medicine" with a photographic copy of the first print from this series, entitled "The Large Electric Machine at Haarlem."
Object number: 1998-1-1087
Fabre et Cie
Date: circa 1856
Object number: 5468
Henry Hughes & Son, Ltd.
Date: 1900-1915
Accessories: instruction manual for instrument is in box of disassembled parts.
Object number: DW0141c
Thomas Hall
Date: circa 1890
Accessories: pulley rope
Object number: 1997-1-1423