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Cavendish Laboratory : Maxwell's wooden dynamical top (1856)

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Photograph of Maxwell's wooden dynamical top of 1856. The top was designed to illustrate the various motions of a rotating solid body such as precession and nutation under the influence of external torques.</p>

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