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Haurongo: Coe, Herbert James Bowkett

Kinetosphere, Wellington Polytechnic

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Man stands inside a small room with a grid pattern on the walls and floors, also containing rods and spheres.

James Coe stands in the Wellington Polytechnic’s kinetosphere, which was used to measure and record three-dimensional movement. Coe had designed and built it. 

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Designscape

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Michael Smythe. 'Coe, Herbert James Bowkett', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/47562/kinetosphere-wellington-polytechnic (accessed 4 June 2026).