Contributions from The Museum of History and Technology: Paper 44 Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century
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Victor F. Lenzen and Robert P. Multhauf
GALILEO, HUYGENS, AND NEWTON 304
FIGURE OF THE EARTH 306
EARLY TYPES OF PENDULUMS 309
KATER’S CONVERTIBLE AND INVARIABLE PENDULUMS 314
REPSOLD-BESSEL REVERSIBLE PENDULUM 320
PEIRCE AND DEFFORGES INVARIABLE, REVERSIBLE PENDULUMS 327
VON STERNECK AND MENDENHALL PENDULUMS 331
ABSOLUTE VALUE OF GRAVITY AT POTSDAM 338
APPLICATION OF GRAVITY SURVEYS 342
SUMMARY 346
Victor F. Lenzen and Robert P. Multhauf