Pendulum Hall in NMHT

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)

National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)

Pendulum Hall (MHT)

Summary

Visitors on the lower level of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, are watching Foucault's Pendulum, which demonstrates the rotation of the earth.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 19, Folder: 5

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1970

Standard number

SIA2010-2908 or P64131-F or P64131-f.10

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Interior

Exhibit

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Interior; Medium: Photographic print

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Earth--Rotation

Exhibitions

Foucault's pendulum

Interiors

Museum visitors

Pendulum

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_9343