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Astronomical Apparatus Listen Sextant Galileo telescope Cross Staff Plane Astrolabe

Mechanical Experiments Listen Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment Jump on the model of 's Gravesande Demonstration apparatus for reflection after elastic shocks demonstration experiment on kinematics

Optical Experiments Listen Camera Lucida Camera Obscura Reading Stone Leeuwenhoek Microscope Water Prism handheld Brewster type stereoscope table top stereoscopic viewer Pseudoscope on the Model of Ew

Electric and Elektromagnetic Experiments Listen Barlow's Wheel Coulomb's Torsion Balance Electrostatic Generator Henley's Quadrant Electrometer Leyden Jars Tangent Galvanometer Voltaic Crown of Cups E

Sextant Listen The sextant was and still is a navigational instrument. It evolved from the ancient octant (eigth part of the circumference of a circle) and is used to measure the angular difference be

Galileo telescope Listen The Galilean telescope is realized with a convergent objective lens and a divergent eyepiece lens. Consequently, the image of the object appears in an upright position. Thus,

Litrameter Listen Robert Hare was a lecturer in chemistry at Pennsylvania University. His litrameter was represented in science periodicals of both the old and new world. By his own account he used st

Sikes's Hydrometer Listen The hydrometer is a measurement device to determine the mass density of liquids. It was developed in the early 19th century and put to use by the British Customs Services to

Hydrostatic Balance on the model of 's Gravesande Listen This device is used to determine the density of liquids. To do so the two cups below the scale pans are filled with different liquids. Attached

Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment Listen Galileo's inclined plane is a wooden beam of approximately 6,7m length the top of which has a hemicircular vellum-bound notch. The vellum is used in order to