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Harmonograph Pendulum AKA Inventions At… 1937
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Harmonograph is presented at Great Western Railways (G.W.R.) Exhibition. Purpose of the instrument is to record two or more connected movements. Two men adjusting the two pendulums going to different directions so the harmonograph can record their movements. Several shots...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 41834
- Sort Number:
- NSP 044
- Time in/Out:
- 01:31:56:00 / 01:33:02:00
- Canister:
- NSP 44
- Film ID:
- 1232.25
- Issue Date:
- 28/01/1937
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