Mariottes stødmaskine

English description:

Percussion pendulum apparatus

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Percussion pendulum. Mariotte's collision apparatus. Mahogany stand on tripod with 3 brass leveling screws. From a mahogany bracket is bifilarly suspended 7 ivory spheres with diameter distance and identical level, so as to collide along the same line. From a brass bracket are suspended 2 ivory spheres in the same manner. A circular scale measures the swing of the spheres.To be measured.Ref: s'Gravesande (1748) XXVII fig 1. Van Marum p 172. Det phys Cab vol 1 p 27, pl 4 fig 11&12.Not signed. Certainly Danish.1790 app (g)

• Category: Mechanics
• Hauch number: A44
• Inventory number: 3600
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 108

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §77
• Cabinet 1: p.27, pl.4 fig11

• Literature:
• Nollet, J. A.: 1,04717
• Sigaud de Lafond : 1,0603
• Martinus van Marum: 53
• Cataloque of Mechanical Instruments, Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze: 2,061

• Mariotte(1677)

  's Gravesande(1742) pl 27 fig 1

  Gehler(1787-96) III p.435

  Clercq(1997b) no.32