Instruments of science : an historical encyclopedia
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Instruments of science : an historical encyclopedia
（Garland encyclopedias in the history of science, v. 2）（Garland reference library of social science, v. 936）
Science Museum, London, and the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Garland, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This authoritative reference covers 325 scientific instruments ranging from antiquity to the present, and from the mundane to the highly sophisticated. Entries explain how they work and trace their invention, development, distribution and use. Fully illustrated and complete with bibliographies, it will be particularly useful to students and scholars of modern science and technology. Reflecting contemporary practice, it examines instruments used for testing and monitoring, as well as those used for research, and even considers a number of widely used laboratory organisms (such as drosophila and e.coli) as instruments.
Table of Contents
Contents include: Actinometer Artificial Horizon Atwood's Machine Breathalyzer Camera Obscura Chladni Plates Clock, Atomic Dip Circle Earth Strain Meter Electroscope Electron Microscope Ellipsometer Fatigue Testing Instruments Galton Whistle Geiger Counter Global Positioning System Gyroscope Heliostat Kymograph Laser and Maser Magic Lantern Mariner's Astrolabe Napier's Rods Pendulum PET Scanner Polygraph Protein Sequencer Seismograph Sun-Dial Tachometer Theodolite Visceroctome Wheatstone Bridge X-ray Diffraction
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