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Historical Notes: a Brief Chronicle of the Tuning Fork
Ernst Chladni: Physicist, Musician and Musical Instrument Maker
Lissajous Tuning Forks: the Standardisation of Musical Sound
Herman von Helmholtz
Rudolph Koenig: the Pursuit of Acoustic Perfection
Monochord
Parabolic Sound Mirrors
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Stroh's Automatic Phonograph
Wheatstone's Symphonium
Herman von Helmholtz
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Helmholtz Resonators: Tools for the Analysis of Sound
Helmholtz's Apparatus for the Synthesis of Sound
Rudolph Koenig: the Pursuit of Acoustic Perfection
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Koenig's Apparatus for the Analysis of Sound
Trombone de Koenig
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A Medieval Astrolabe
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Two Telescopes
The 'Grand' Orrery
A Projecting Planetarium
Armillary Spheres and Teaching Astronomy
The King's Astronomer
A Ship-Shaped Sundial
Short's Telescope
The 'Incomparable' Mr. Sutton
Art and Astronomy: Cornelius Varley
Maps of the Heavens
Glass Monograph
A Medieval Astrolabe
A Medieval Astrolabe overview
The Parts of an Astrolabe
The 'Incomparable' Mr. Sutton
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The Sutton-Type Quadrant
Art and Astronomy: Cornelius Varley
Art and Astronomy: Cornelius Varley overview
The Graphic Telescope and Varley's Artwork
Maps of the Heavens
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Images of Stereographic Projections
The Gunter Quadrant and Practical Knowledge
Astronomy and Empire
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The Stolen Quadrant
Astronomy at Sea
Navigational Arts
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Science in the Field
The Sun Worshippers
Famine and Astronomy
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Instrument Breakage and Repair
Charles Piazzi Smyth and His Imperial Measures
Science in the Field
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Survey Instruments in India
The Sun Worshippers
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Eclipse Teamwork
Forgotten Instruments from an Eclipse Expedition
Local knowledge
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Copycat sundials?
Pundits and The Great Game
Calculating Devices
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A Brief History of Calculating Devices
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The Sector
John Napier's Calculating Tools
Slide Rules
Mechanical Calculation
Charles Babbage's Difference Engine
Pocket Calculating Devices
The EDSAC and Computing in Cambridge
Handheld Electronic Calculators
Slide Rules
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Specialist Slide Rules
A Universal Slide Rule?
Handheld Electronic Calculators
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Pocket Programming
The Aesthetics of Calculation
Frogs
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Why Frogs?
Frog-plates
Ziegler's Wax Models
Frogs in the Classroom
Frogs and Animal Electricity
Frogs and Physiological Instruments in 20th Century Cambridge
Frogs in the Foster Collection
Frog-plates
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Projecting the Wonder of Life
Seeing Life Through the Microscope
Ziegler's Wax Models
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Frog Models, Artisans, and Academic Controversy
Techniques of Observing and Modelling
Globes
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A Brief History of Globes
An Immobile Globe
Dissectable Paper Globes
A Jigsaw Puzzle Globe
Japanese Star Globe
Pocket-sized Globes
A Celebration of Navigation
A Geographical Lottery Game
An Early Italian Globe?
Identifying Stars at Sea
Portable 'Umbrella' Globe
A Spanish 'Encyglobedia'
Meteorology
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What is Meteorology?
Barometers
Early Thermometers and Temperature Scales
Measuring Air Humidity
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Barometers
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Types of Barometer
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Early Thermometers and Temperature Scales
Early Thermometers and Temperature Scales overview
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Microscopes
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A Brief History of the Microscope
Parts of the Microscope
Charles Darwin's Microscopes
Fish and Frogs
Three Microscope Makers
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Faraday's Slide
Measuring the Microscopic
A Dutch Pioneer
The Problems with Lenses
Amici & Robinson
Cambridge Botanists
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Elcock: Scientist or Craftsman?
Three Microscope Makers
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John Cuff and the 'New-Constructed' Microscope
George Lindsay's Royal Microscope
Benjamin Martin and Microscope Compendia
A Dutch Pioneer
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Leeuwenhoek Replicas
Mayall's Microscope Reproductions
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A Japanese Earthquake Model
Geological Models
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Knitted Interpenetrating Surfaces
Modelling Chemistry
Glass Models of Fungi
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