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Henry Kater

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Date

1827

Description

Watercolour and gum arabic portrait of (Captain) Henry Kater on ivory, by William Derby, 1827
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CC BY-NC-SA

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Courtesy of the Science Museum

Location

London, England

Country

England

Medium

Watercolour

TWW Comment

The physicist Henry Kater is best known for the invention of a reversible free-swinging pendulum that could measure the local acceleration of gravity.

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