Nollets diagonalmaskine

English description:

Showing composite movements.

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Diagonal machine. Nollet's demonstration of parallelogram of forces. Wooden board mounted vertically on wooden base. A silk cord is pulling a small sleigh along a pair of brass rails, at the same time raising a brass weight, which then moves diagonally over the vertical board. Overall dim 535x414x105.Ref: Nollet (1764) lecon 5, II fig 8.Not signed1800 app (g)

• Category: Mechanics
• Hauch number: A37
• Inventory number: 330
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 18

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §74
• Cabinet 1: Bd.1 p.23; pl.3 fig11

• Literature:
• Nollet, J. A.: 2,05208
• Sigaud de Lafond : 1,0503
• Martinus van Marum: 27
• The King George III Collection: M67
• Cataloque of Mechanical Instruments, Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze: 2,044

• Desaguliers(1744) XXIII fig 12

  Adams(1794) III pl.II fig.1

  Gehler(1825-45) I p.934