Pendulum Hall in NMHT

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

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: c. 1970

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

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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.

Subject

  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
  • National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
  • Pendulum Hall (MHT)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

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

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Earth
  • Exhibitions
  • Foucault's pendulum
  • Interiors
  • Museums
  • Pendulum
  • Rotation
  • Earth--Rotation
  • Museum visitors

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Interior
  • Exhibit

ID Number

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

Physical description

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

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