Seismograph
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- OBJECT TYPE
- ENGINEERING
- DATE
- 1954–1955
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0529.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Minnetech Labs Inc.
- MODEL
- MD-3
- LOCATION
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 60175
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING, CONTROL PANEL, CONTROLS & PARTS/ SYNTHETIC DIGITAL INDICATOR, CONTROLS, HANDLE, PARTS/ RUBBER GASKET
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 30.2 cm
- Width
- 24.5 cm
- Height
- 13.1 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Mining and Metallurgy
- Category
- Mineral exploration
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Minnetech
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Minnesota
- City
- Minneapolis
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- 1960S+
- Canada
-
ONE OF COLLECTION OF INSTRUMENTS USED BY PROF. M.K. SEGUIN WHILE IN GEOLOGY DEPT. OF U. OF LAVAL, QUEBEC DURING 1960S TO CA. 1990. THEY WERE ACQUIRED BY SEGUIN TO SUPPORT CONTRACT RESEARCH, & AS TEACHING APPARATUS FOR HIS GRAD STUDENTS & TEACHING AIDS FOR UNDERGRAD GEOLOGY STUDENTS AT LAVAL CA.1960-1995. - Function
-
AN INSTRUMENT USED IN GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION TO RECORD VIBRATIONS IN THE GROUND CREATED BY CLOSELY CONTROLLED APPLICATION OF ENERGY SOURCES TO INDUCE SHOCK WAVES. THESE VIBRATIONS OR WAVES ARE MONITORED & ANALYSED TO DETERMINE THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARTH. - Technical
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THE SEISMIC METHOD IS AN IMPORTANT & WIDELY USED GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUE, DIFFERENTIATED FROM ACTUAL EARTHQUAKE SEISMOLOGY BY THE USE OF CLOSELY CONTROLLED APPLICATION OF ENERGY SOURCES TO INDUCE SHOCK WAVES. THE APPLIED ENERGY SOURCES PRODUCE SHOCKS VERY SIMILAR TO SEISMIC WAVES WHICH ARE THEN MONITORED & ANALYSED BY MEANS OF A NETWORK OF CABLING & GEOPHONES HOOKED TO A CENTRAL MONITORING STATION WITH SEISMOGRAPHS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- BLACK LETTERING ON CONTROL PANEL READS "ENGINEERING SEISMOGRAPH/ MODEL MD-3/ GEOPHYSICAL SPECIALTIES/ DIVISION/ MINNETECH LABS, INC., MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA"/ BLACK LETTERING ON CONTROL PANEL FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS/ PLATE ON EXTERIOR READING "SERIAL NO./ 60175"
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE From CA of 11/05/2001 by David Daley: No - Complete
- Finish
- BRUSHED METAL CASING & CONTROL PANEL/ PLATED PARTS/ BLACK, BLUE & RED SYNTHETIC CONTROLS/ COLOURLESS, TRANPARENT INDICATOR WINDOW, BLACK DIAL/ BLACK RUBBER/ GREY HANDLE
- Decoration
- NONE
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Minnetech Labs Inc., Seismograph, between 1954–1955, Artifact no. 1997.0529, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1997.0529.001/
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