Ferguson's Combined Mechanical Powers Demonstration Apparatus
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Ferguson's Combined Mechanical Powers Demonstration Apparatus

W. & S. Jones, circa 1800

已结束2016年4月21日

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GBP 18,750

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Ferguson's Combined Mechanical Powers Demonstration Apparatus
W. & S. Jones, circa 1800
signed W. & S. JONES 30 Holborn London, arm with twelve notches for weights, attaches to steel axis with screw for turning brass cogged wheel, a system of pulleys to support the 72 oz. weight, supported on tall lacquered brass column, the base with three screw feet with six small weights in fitted case with two brass handles, label to front Ferguson's M. Powers Combined
20¼ x 8¼ x 3¼in. (51.5 x 21 x 8.5cm.)

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A fine and rare example of a Georgian physics apparatus designed by James Ferguson (1710-1776) to demonstrate the principles of Newtonian mechanics.