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Electrical Experiments for Entertainment Purposes Listen These exhibits are experimental setups made for entertainment's sake. They could be found in the parlours of educated families throughout the 1
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Who we are - The Seminar for Media Education Listen The Seminar for Media Education is located in the social and educational sciences with a focus on processes of mediatisation in society as a whole.
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Coulomb's Torsion Balance Listen Coulomb's Torsion Balance is a setup based on two glass cylinders, one of 65cm length with a torsion micrometer (fig.2, right) is placed on a glass plate that rests on
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Geiger Müller counter tube Listen The Geiger Müller counter tube is one of the earliest measurement devices for the field of radioactivity. Walter Müller developed it under the auspices of his thesis
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Camera Obscura Listen A Camera Obscura is an darkened room or volume into which light can shine through a pin hole, sometimes a pin hole combined with a lens. On the wall opposite to the entrance hole
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Camera Lucida Listen The Camera Lucida, sometimes known as Wollaston prism, consists of an upright brass column, to which a prism holder is mounted. By looking through the prism you can see a sheet of
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Barlow's Wheel Listen Barlow's Wheel is the prototype of unipolar engine. Peter Barlow published its description in 1822 in the article "A curious electro-magnetic experiment". The star-shaped copper
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Support Listen First point of contact: ZIMT- Service Desk If you have got any problems with your work devices (computers, notebooks and accessories) university staff should not hesitate to contact the
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Henley's Quadrant Electrometer Listen Henley's variation of a quadrant electrometer consists of an upright column with a brass stand. Attached to the column is a wire with an elder pith ball. If the i
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Reading Stone Listen A Reading Stone is a thick plano-convex lens and can be considered to be the prototype of modern magnifying glasses. It was and still is put to use to magnify minute writings. fur