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Instruments \ Gravity \ 

Name:

Vening Meinesz Pendulum Apparatus

Date:

1944

Item Number:

87.21.26

Donor:

Lamont-Doherty

Type:

(apparatus exposed)

 

Manufacturer:

 

 

Lamont Geological Observatory

Description:

Black box 47 cm D; 100 cm OAH; an extremely complex apparatus having 2 pendulum swung in opposite phase, plus other sensing pendulums. An optical system allows pendulum periods to be measured on a photographicrecord.

















 

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