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Harvard Project Physics universal power supply
Date: 1962-1972
Inventory Number: 2006-1-0084
Classification: Power Supply
Subject:
Maker: Damon Engineering, Inc. (fl. 1962 - 1972)
Maker: Harvard Project Physics (1962-1972)
User: Harvard College (founded 1636)
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Dimensions:
without cord: 22.2 × 20.8 × 12.3 cm (8 3/4 × 8 3/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Description:
DC universal power supply in housing with blue anodized aluminum sides.
From the Project Physics catalog: "This DC power supply provides all power requirements for the various electronic components used throughout the Project Physics Course. Included in a fixed 8-volt regulated output to operate the amplifier and the oscillator or other electronic equipment...."
From the Project Physics catalog: "This DC power supply provides all power requirements for the various electronic components used throughout the Project Physics Course. Included in a fixed 8-volt regulated output to operate the amplifier and the oscillator or other electronic equipment...."
In Collection(s)
Signedon face: [crossed-ovals logo] DAMON
on face: Project Physics
on face: Project Physics
Inscribedon face: Power Supply
on green label tape: SCI CEN NS-7
on green label tape: SCI CEN NS-7
Historical AttributesThis apparatus was designed to be used with Project Physics, a national physics curriculum developed in the 1960s. Project Physics materials included teaching aids, apparatus for student experiments, and books.
The Project Physics Course grew out of a Harvard University initiative to teach all students physics, not just those who would go on to careers in science. The course aimed to be a "humanistically oriented" introduction to "science at its best."
Damon Engineering produced and marketed a set of Project Physics laboratory equipment in coordination with the curricular work of Harvard physics professor Gerald Holton, California high school science teacher F. James Rutherford, and Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Fletcher G. Watson.
This instrument is marked "NS-7." This refers to a General Education (Gen Ed) course, Natural Sciences 7, which was colloquially known as Nat Sci 7. Nat Sci 7 was a physics course for non-scientists first taught by Gerald Holton in 1966. It was part of the newly established General Education curriculum at Harvard. Holton was vice-chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education and Holton designed Nat 7 as a model course to "make science irresistible" and improve the public image of physics.
The Project Physics Course grew out of a Harvard University initiative to teach all students physics, not just those who would go on to careers in science. The course aimed to be a "humanistically oriented" introduction to "science at its best."
Damon Engineering produced and marketed a set of Project Physics laboratory equipment in coordination with the curricular work of Harvard physics professor Gerald Holton, California high school science teacher F. James Rutherford, and Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Fletcher G. Watson.
This instrument is marked "NS-7." This refers to a General Education (Gen Ed) course, Natural Sciences 7, which was colloquially known as Nat Sci 7. Nat Sci 7 was a physics course for non-scientists first taught by Gerald Holton in 1966. It was part of the newly established General Education curriculum at Harvard. Holton was vice-chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education and Holton designed Nat 7 as a model course to "make science irresistible" and improve the public image of physics.
Primary SourcesThe Project Physics Collection of course books is archived online here.
Linda J. Greenhouse, "Gerald Holton: The Discovery That Scientists Are Also Philosophers Should Not Depend On Accidents," The Harvard Crimson, December 12, 1966; found online here.
Linda J. Greenhouse, "Gerald Holton: The Discovery That Scientists Are Also Philosophers Should Not Depend On Accidents," The Harvard Crimson, December 12, 1966; found online here.
ProvenanceScience Center Physics Lab