Balance
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- OBJECT TYPE
- HIBBERT'S/PORTABLE
- DATE
- 1920
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1998.0236.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Pye, W.G. & C0.
- MODEL
- ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE PATTERN
- LOCATION
- Cambridge, England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOODEN BASE & RULE; METAL COMPONENTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 33.3 cm
- Width
- 14.0 cm
- Height
- 18.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Physics
- Category
- Magnetism
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Pye
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Cambridge
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- THIS BALANCE PROBABLY USED C. 1920S +.
- Canada
-
PART OF A COLLECTION OF PHYSICS LABORATORY AND CLASSROOM DEMONSTRATION APPARATUS FROM MCMASTER UNIVERSITY. FOUNDED IN 1887 MCMASTER WAS ORIGINALLY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION, AND WAS LOCATED IN TORONTO. IN 1930 THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS STUDENT POPULATION OF 500 WAS MOVED TO HAMILTON, ONT. (REF. 1) - Function
-
TO MEASURE MAGNETIC POLE STRENGTHS, CURRENTS, AND INTENSITIES OF THE EQUITORIAL AND AXIAL FIELDS OF A MAGNET. - Technical
-
INVENTED BY W. HIBBERT, OF LONDON'S REGENT STREET POLYTECHNIC. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 Decal applied to base reads " W.G. PYE & CO./ ENG./ CAMBRIDGE ". Indicator scale divided +10-0-10+; horizontal and vertical scales divided in centimeters.
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE. From CA of 12/11/2001 by David Daley: No - Complete
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Pye, W.G. & C0., Balance, circa 1920, Artifact no. 1998.0236, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1998.0236.001/
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