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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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tracing social transformation processes and actively shaping future developments. In addition to its work in various research and development projects, the Seminar for Media Education teaches within the un [...] society as a whole. Within this framework, a variety of different but interlocking research foci have developed: The critical perspective on digitalisation and mediatisation, in theory-based connection with education
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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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Walter Müller developed it under the auspices of his thesis advisor Hans Geiger at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel in the sping of 1928. In the early days of the development the counter is
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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 wheel
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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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tic forces. The magnitude of pepulsion can be read from a hemisphric scale. The instrument was developed by William Henley and supposedly the first of its kind. further reading Priestley, J., & Henly,
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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