Hall's Inclined Plane
Hall's Inclined Plane
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- Description
- The “Ziegler Electric Co. Mfr's Boston” inscription on this inclined plane apparatus refers to a firm that began trading as such in 1894. The form was often attributed to Edwin Herbert Hall, professor of physics at Harvard University.
- Ref: Edwin Herbert Hall, Suggestions for Teachers Using Hall’s Elements of Physics (New York, 1912), p. 77.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- delete
- Hall's inclined plane
- user
- The Rayen School
- maker
- Ziegler Electric Company
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- used
- United States: Ohio, Youngstown
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in x 15 3/4 in x 4 3/16 in; 25.4 cm x 40.005 cm x 10.668 cm
- overall: 10 1/8 in x 16 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 25.7175 cm x 41.275 cm x 9.525 cm
- ID Number
- 2010.0235.20
- catalog number
- 2010.0235.20
- accession number
- 2010.0235
- Credit Line
- Richard J. Zitto
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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