wave motion demonstration
Date1870-1920
Inventory Number2007-1-0097
ClassificationDemonstration Apparatus
Subject
Maker
American
?
Cultural Region
Dimensions13 x 116 x 13.3 cm (5 1/8 x 45 11/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Material
DescriptionLong, narrow wooden box painted black, with thin slot running lengthwise along one face. Wooden handle at one end of box turns one-meter-long cylinder inside, which has been wrapped with paper hand-inked with wave patterns. Slot reveals a moving picture of wave fronts when cylinder is turned.
Face with slot is stamped with old Harvard inventory number: "21-1".
Face with slot is stamped with old Harvard inventory number: "21-1".
Signedunsigned
American
Date: 1870-1920
Accessories: box; wooden handle
Object number: 2007-1-0098
French
Date: circa 1875
Accessories: envelope with lead shot
compass dial
unidentified papers
Object number: DW0601
Leeds & Northrup Company
Date: circa 1940
Accessories: lid
Object number: 1997-1-0373
Richard W. Thomas
Date: circa 1861
Accessories: bottle and beaker (1998-1-1634a); hydrometer and manual (1998-1-1634b)
Object number: 1998-1-1634
E. S. Ritchie & Sons
Date: 1867-1886
Object number: 1996-1-0354
Date: 1890-1930
Object number: RS0505
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: RS0168
Rudolph Koenig
Date: 1865-1890
Object number: 1997-1-0919