National Museum of American History
Whirling Table
Unknown artist
An estimate of U.S. Military Academy expenses for the year 1841 included $140 for a whirling table “for illustrating the theory of central forces, and for showing experimentally the law of the planetary motions and of gravitation.” This is probably that instrument.
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