objects showing improvements in compensation balances and pendulums

Made:: circa 1843

Case of objects showing improvements made by Loseby in compensation balances and pendulums including 4 compensation balances, 12 small curved tubes, 14 small straight tubes, apparatus for illustrating Loseby's Pendulum, as for regulating motion of telescope

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Category:: Time Measurement

Object Number:: 1884-75

Materials:: balance: bi-metallic, bulbs: glass and tubes: (contents) mercury

type:: compensation balances for chronometers

credit:: Mr. E. T. Loseby

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Representation of Loseby's Modifications in Compensation Balances and Pendulums, 1843-1884

Objects showing improvements made by Loseby in compensation balances and pendulums, designed to eliminate the middle temperature error. Includes 4 compensation balances, 9 small curved tubes, 8 small straight tubes, apparatus for illustrating Loseby's Pendulum, as for regulating motion of telescope, 1843-1884