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Experimental History of Science Listen The historical laboratory ("HistoLab") is the central place for our focus history of physics. Besides to a number of historically precise reconstructions of meas
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Particle Physics and Radioactivity Listen Geiger Müller counter tube Millikan's Apparatus for the Determination of the Elementary Charge
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Hydrostatics Instruments Listen Litrameter Sikes's Hydrometer Hydrostatic Balance on the model of 's Gravesande
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Thermodynamic Experiments Listen Mouchot's Solar Heater Mechanical Equivalent of Heat on the Model of Hugh Callendar
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Astronomical Apparatus Listen Sextant Galileo telescope Cross Staff Plane Astrolabe
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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
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Optical Experiments Listen Camera Lucida Camera Obscura Reading Stone Leeuwenhoek Microscope Water Prism handheld Brewster type stereoscope table top stereoscopic viewer
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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
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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
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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,