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Description: | Painted tinplate steel box containing numerous string loops, by the Science Museum, London, United Kingdom, 1985-1987. For use with the leather strap to hold the Foucault pendulum bob in place. Attached to both the strap and a hook on the side of the pedulum scale, the string was burnt through with a lighted match to release the pendulum into its swinging motion. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | container component - object Foucault pendulum apparatus | Temporal: | 1985-1987 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Science Museum | Identifier: | http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grab... | Go to resource |
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