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Thermodynamic Experiments Listen Mouchot's Solar Heater Mechanical Equivalent of Heat on the Model of Hugh Callendar

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

Instruments of Navigation – used as Educational Tools in Mathematics , in: P. Heering, Klassen, S. & Metz, D. (eds.): Enabling Scientific Understanding through Historical Instruments and Experiments in Formal

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

instrument was described for example in 'sGravesandes Mathematical elements of natural philosophy, confirm'd by experiments (1737) or An introduction to Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy (J.T. Desaguilers, Trans.)