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Objekt 21

Air wheel

Description

The device is a kind of small windmill with two windmills, the blades of the right windmill being extendable to demonstrate the reduction of air resistance under an artificially supplied air flow.

Object description

Manufacturer: Antoine-Hippolyte Pixii (1808-1835)

Paris, 1825

Brass

Purchase 1825 by Prof. Peter Merian

Deposit Institute of Physics of the University of Basel, Phys. 90.

Inv. 1986.417.

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