A sampling of the coverage: 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
Robert Bud holds a doctorate in the History and
Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and
serves as Head of Research (Collections) at the Science Museum in
London. His widespread publications on the history of chemistry and
biotechnology include InvisibleConnections: Instruments,
Institutions and Science(l992), and The Uses of Life: A History of
Biotechnology(l993).
Deborah Warner holds a M.A. in the History of
Sciences from Harvard University, and serves as Curator of Physical
Science Collections at the National Museum of American History. Her
widespread publications in the history of science and scientific
instruments include Alvan Clark & Sons: Artists in Optics (1968;
rev. 1996), and The Sky Explored: Celestial Cartography
1500-1800(1979). She is also founder and editor of Rittenhouse, a
quarterly journal of the American instrument enterprise.
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Booklist
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"...it is hard to put down once you've started reading. It is an
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Rittenhouse
"Instruments of Science will undoubtedly prove a useful reference
work..." -- Johns Hopkins University Press
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