Artist: Fielding Brown (American, b. 1924)
Created: 1975
Materials: steel, aluminum, and hardwood with electrical drive
Drive by Hugh Kirkpatrick. Termination by Bryce Babcock.
Wave Machine, located in the central stairwell of Bronfman Science Center, is a large-scale torsion machine that is frequently misidentified as a strand of DNA. It was designed by Fielding Brown, professor of Physics emeritus, to allow physics students to perform experiments.
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