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Shelfmark: 20149-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 15; Diam.: 12; Mass: 2000 g.
 
Component's data
Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: apparatus
Abstract: Brass instrument with two circular platform - with screw - clamps and levelling screws. A ball-and-socket joint in the centre of the lower platform is connected by a brass tube to the upper platform. Seems to be a levelling device.
 
Attributes
Person City Cronology   Position
name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: -
date/range: 1760
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
Subject/s
Discipline Topic Argument

Geology Levelling Apparatus

 
Digital version:  1  Image/s
mckie_187_269

 

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