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Contributions from The Museum of History and Technology : Paper 44 Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century

DEVELOPMENT OF GRAVITY PENDULUMS IN THE 19th CENTURY

Galileo, Huygens, and Newton

Figure of the Earth

Early Types of Pendulums

Kater’s Convertible and Invariable Pendulums

Repsold-Bessel Reversible Pendulum

Peirce and Defforges Invariable, Reversible Pendulums

Von Sterneck and Mendenhall Pendulums

Absolute Value of Gravity at Potsdam

Application of Gravity Surveys

Summary

INDEX

Transcriber’s Corrections