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Clockwork Mechanism (Number 2) from a Transit of Venus Demonstration Model, by Michael Wright, 2004

Inventory Number 13394

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.13394

Item type
Object
Provenance
Made for the Museum by Michael Wright in 2004 (accessioned 2008).
Primary inscriptions
Numbered '2'.
Physical material
Copper Alloy
Wood
Steel
Dimensions
Height: 60mm Width: 82mm Depth: 75mm Weight: 184g
Inventory No
13394
Accession Number
2008-11

Description

Clockwork mechanism modelling the transit of Venus across the solar disc, made for the Museum's 2004 reconstruction of Benjamin Martin's 'artificial transit' demonstration model of 1769. One of two. This one (number 2, inventory no.13394) has a back-plate and was fitted in the working model and operational, the other (number 1, inventory no.13395) was a duplicate for exhibition purposes, without a back-plate.

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