Gyroscope
Gyroscope
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- Description
- Paul-Gustave Froment (1815-1865), an inventor and instrument maker in Paris, made Leon Foucault’s first gyroscope in the early 1850s. By the 1870s, the physical apparatus at Columbia College (now University) in New York City included "a complete Foucault gyroscope, by Froment." This is that instrument.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- gyroscope
- maker
- Froment, Paul-Gustave
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
- Measurements
- overall: 50 cm x 27.5 cm x 20.5 cm; 19 11/16 in x 10 13/16 in x 8 1/16 in
- overall in case: 8 1/2 in x 19 1/2 in x 11 in; 21.59 cm x 49.53 cm x 27.94 cm
- ID Number
- PH.322966
- catalog number
- 322966
- accession number
- 249200
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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