Instruments of Science : An Historical Encyclopedia

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