Apparatus Named After Our Academic Ancestors—VII

• Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. ^[1]
  1. [1] Kenyon College

     Kenyon College

     Township of College, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 62, Nº. 8, 2024, págs. 636-639
• Idioma: inglés
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  • One of my pleasures is walking through the museum wing of the Greenslade house in Gambier, Ohio. This wing was added to the 1857 house in 2005 to accommodate a fraction of the 800 pieces of physics teaching apparatus that have been given to me by individuals and physics departments for safekeeping. About a third of the apparatus that has come in since the year 2000 is laid out on the cherry shelves. Much of the appeal is visual, but early physics apparatus has a distinct smell of polished wood and oiled steel and brass; all that is missing is the aroma of chalk dust! The artifacts date from 1850 to 1950. A picture of the interior of the museum has been published in both the American Journal of Physics and The Physics Teacher.1 A number of the artifacts bear the names of their inventors: Thacher, Ritchie, Boys, Barker, Hero, Edison, Braun, Sommerfeld, Sturgeon, and Poynting. I look forward to having you join me in looking at some of the apparatus named after our academic ancestors.