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Scientific instrument

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A scientific instrument is, broadly speaking, a device or tool used for scientific purposes, including the study of both natural phenomena and theoretical research. [1]

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A. Reyrolle & Company

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Acceleration

In physics, acceleration is the rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time.

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Accelerometer

An accelerometer is a device that measures proper acceleration.

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ADInstruments

ADInstruments is an international company that produces data acquisition and analysis systems for the life sciences industry.

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Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies is an American public research, development and manufacturing company established in 1999 as a spin-off from Hewlett-Packard.

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Ammeter

An ammeter (from Ampere Meter) is a measuring instrument used to measure the current in a circuit.

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Anemometer

An anemometer is a device used for measuring the speed of wind, and is also a common weather station instrument.

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Anton Paar

Anton Paar GmbH is an Austrian company based in Graz that develops, produces and sells analytical instruments for laboratories and process analytical technology.

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Arjen Roelofs

Arjen Roelofs (1 March 1754 – 11 May 1828) was a Dutch astronomer.

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Beckman Coulter

Beckman Coulter Inc., is an American company that makes biomedical laboratory instruments.

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Bioelectronics

Bioelectronics is a field of research in the convergence of biology and electronics.

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Bruker

Bruker Corporation is a manufacturer of scientific instruments for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis.

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Calipers

A caliper (British spelling also calliper, or in plurale tantum sense a pair of calipers) is a device used to measure the distance between two opposite sides of an object.

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Calorimeter

A calorimeter is an object used for calorimetry, or the process of measuring the heat of chemical reactions or physical changes as well as heat capacity.

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Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company

Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company was a company founded in 1881 by Horace Darwin (1851–1928) and Albert George Dew-Smith (1848–1903) to manufacture scientific instruments.

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Chronometer watch

A chronometer is a specific type of mechanical timepiece tested and certified to meet certain precision standards.

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Collider

A collider is a type of particle accelerator involving directed beams of particles.

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Computer

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.

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Cyclotron

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1929-1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932.

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Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.

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DNA sequencer

A DNA sequencer is a scientific instrument used to automate the DNA sequencing process.

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Dynamometer

A dynamometer or "dyno" for short, is a device for measuring force, torque, or power.

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Electric charge

Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.

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Electric current

An electric current is a flow of electric charge.

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Electrometer

An electrometer is an electrical instrument for measuring electric charge or electrical potential difference.

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Electronic test equipment

Electronic test equipment is used to create signals and capture responses from electronic devices under test (DUTs).

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Electroscope

An electroscope is an early scientific instrument that is used to detect the presence and magnitude of electric charge on a body.

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Electrostatic analyzer

An electrostatic analyzer or ESA is an instrument used in ion optics that employs an electric field to allow the passage of only those ions or electrons that have a given specific energy.

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Ellipsometry

Ellipsometry is an optical technique for investigating the dielectric properties (complex refractive index or dielectric function) of thin films.

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Eudiometer

A eudiometer is a laboratory device that measures the change in volume of a gas mixture following a physical or chemical change.

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Foldscope

A Foldscope is an optical microscope that can be assembled from simple components, including a sheet of paper and a lens.

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Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach

Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach (24 August 1771 – 21 May 1826), German scientific instrument maker, was born at Durlach in Baden on 24 August 1771.

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Gravimeter

A gravimeter is an instrument used to measure gravitational acceleration.

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Gravity

Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.

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Gustave Le Bon

Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics.

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Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

Harvard University's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI), established 1948, is "one of the three largest university collections of its kind in the world".

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Heat

In thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one system to another as a result of thermal interactions.

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History of science and technology in the People's Republic of China

For more than a century China's leaders have called for rapid development of science and technology, and science policy has played a greater role in national politics in China than in many other countries.

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Horiba

is a Japanese manufacturer of precision instruments for measurement and analysis.

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Hydrometer

Hydrometer from Practical Physics A hydrometer or areometer is an instrument used for measuring the relative density of liquids based on the concept of buoyancy.

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Inclinometer

An inclinometer or clinometer is an instrument used for measuring angles of slope (or tilt), elevation, or depression of an object with respect to gravity.

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Information management

Information management (IM) concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposition through archiving or deletion.

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Instrumentalism

Instrumentalism is one of a multitude of modern schools of thought created by scientists and philosophers throughout the 20th century.

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Instrumentation

Instrumentation is a collective term for measuring instruments used for indicating, measuring and recording physical quantities, and has its origins in the art and science of scientific instrument-making.

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Interferometry

Interferometry is a family of techniques in which waves, usually electromagnetic waves, are superimposed causing the phenomenon of interference in order to extract information.

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Internet of things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these things to connect and exchange data, creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, resulting in efficiency improvements, economic benefits, and reduced human exertions.

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JEOL

is a major developer and manufacturer of electron microscopes and other scientific instruments, industrial equipment and medical equipment.

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Johannes Schöner

Johannes Schöner (16 January 1477 in Karlstadt am Main – 16 January 1547 in Nürnberg) (aka, Johann Schönner, Johann Schoener, Jean Schönner, Joan Schoenerus) was a renowned and respected German polymath.

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Kinetic energy

In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion.

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Laboratory

A laboratory (informally, lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.

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Laboratory information management system

A laboratory information management system (LIMS), sometimes referred to as a laboratory information system (LIS) or laboratory management system (LMS), is a software-based solution with features that support a modern laboratory's operations.

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LECO Corporation

LECO Corporation, founded in 1936 by Carl Schultz and George Krasl, operates its analytical instrumentation research and development, and manufacturing from its headquarters located in St. Joseph, Michigan.

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List of collectables

This is a list of popular collectables described in Wikipedia articles.

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Local area network

A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building.

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Magnetic flux

In physics, specifically electromagnetism, the magnetic flux (often denoted or) through a surface is the surface integral of the normal component of the magnetic field B passing through that surface.

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Magnetograph

A magnetograph is one of two types of scientific instrument.

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Magnetometer

A magnetometer is an instrument that measures magnetism—either the magnetization of a magnetic material like a ferromagnet, or the direction, strength, or relative change of a magnetic field at a particular location.

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Malvern Instruments

Malvern Instruments is a Spectris plc company.

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Markes International

Markes International, headquartered in the UK, develops and manufactures scientific instruments for thermal desorption and time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

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Mass spectrometry

Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that ionizes chemical species and sorts the ions based on their mass-to-charge ratio.

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McPherson Inc

McPherson is a custom manufacturer of precision optical instruments and systems for measuring and characterizing spectra.

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Mettler Toledo

METTLER TOLEDO is a multinational manufacturer of scales and analytical instruments.

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Micrometer

A micrometer, sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge, is a device incorporating a calibrated screw widely used for precise measurement of components in mechanical engineering and machining as well as most mechanical trades, along with other metrological instruments such as dial, vernier, and digital calipers.

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Micrometre

The micrometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American spelling), also commonly known as a micron, is an SI derived unit of length equaling (SI standard prefix "micro-".

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Microscope

A microscope (from the μικρός, mikrós, "small" and σκοπεῖν, skopeîn, "to look" or "see") is an instrument used to see objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.

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Middleware

Middleware is computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system.

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MTS Systems Corporation

MTS Systems Corporation (MTS) is a global supplier of test systems and industrial position sensors.

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Museum Boerhaave

Museum Boerhaave is a museum of the history of science and medicine, based in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Nanorobotics

Nanorobotics is an emerging technology field creating machines or robots whose components are at or near the scale of a nanometre (10−9 meters).

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Nanoscopic scale

The nanoscopic scale (or nanoscale) usually refers to structures with a length scale applicable to nanotechnology, usually cited as 1–100 nanometers.

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Novacam Technologies

Novacam Technologies Inc. specializes in designing and manufacturing advanced metrology and imaging systems for industrial and bio-medical applications.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), is a spectroscopic technique to observe local magnetic fields around atomic nuclei.

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Ohmmeter

An ohmmeter is an electrical instrument that measures electrical resistance, the opposition to an electric current.

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Optical instrument

An optical instrument either processes light waves to enhance an image for viewing, or analyzes light waves (or photons) to determine one of a number of characteristic properties.

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Oscilloscope

An oscilloscope, previously called an oscillograph, and informally known as a scope or o-scope, CRO (for cathode-ray oscilloscope), or DSO (for the more modern digital storage oscilloscope), is a type of electronic test instrument that allows observation of varying signal voltages, usually as a two-dimensional plot of one or more signals as a function of time.

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Oxford Instruments

Oxford Instruments plc is a United Kingdom manufacturing and research company that designs and manufactures tools and systems for industry and research.

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Pall Corporation

Pall Corporation, headquartered in Port Washington, New York, is a global supplier of filtration, separations and purification products.

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PerkinElmer

PerkinElmer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation focused in the business areas of human and environmental health, including: environmental analysis, food and consumer product safety, medical imaging, drug discovery, diagnostics, biotechnology, industrial applications, and life science research.

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Petrus Jacobus Kipp

Petrus Jacobus Kipp (Utrecht, 5 March 1808 – Delft, 3 February 1864) was a Dutch apothecary, chemist and instrument maker.

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Phytotron

A phytotron is an enclosed research greenhouse used for studying interactions between plants and the environment.

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Polymer Char

Polymer Char is a company which designs and manufactures instrumentation for polymer analysis.

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Pressure

Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.

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Pressure measurement

Pressure measurement is the analysis of an applied force by a fluid (liquid or gas) on a surface.

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Radio telescope

A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to receive radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky in radio astronomy.

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Royal Victoria Gallery for the Encouragement of Practical Science

The Royal Victoria Gallery for the Encouragement of Practical Science was an adult education institution and exhibition gallery in Victorian Manchester, a commercial enterprise intended to educate the general public about science and its industrial applications.

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Ruler

A ruler, sometimes called a rule or line gauge, is a device with equally spaced markings along its length, used in geometry, technical drawing, engineering and building to measure distances or to rule straight lines.

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Science History Institute

The Science History Institute is an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science.

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Seismometer

A seismometer is an instrument that measures motion of the ground, caused by, for example, an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, or the use of explosives.

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Shimadzu Corp.

is a Japanese public KK company, manufacturing precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equipment, based in Kyoto, Japan.

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Spectrogram

A spectrogram is a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of sound or other signal as they vary with time.

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Spectrometer

A spectrometer is a scientific instrument used to separate and measure spectral components of a physical phenomenon.

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Surgical instrument

A surgical instrument is a specially designed tool or device for performing specific actions or carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it.

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Synchrotron

A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path.

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System integration

System integration is defined in engineering as the process of bringing together the component sub-systems into one system (an aggregation of subsystems cooperating so that the system is able to deliver the overarching functionality) and ensuring that the subsystems function together as a system, and in information technology as the process of linking together different computing systems and software applications physically or functionally, to act as a coordinated whole.

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Techtron

Techtron Appliances was established in 1938 by Mr Geoffrey S.V. Frew, and manufactured electronic equipment to order in North Melbourne, Australia.

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Telescope

A telescope is an optical instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light).

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Theodolite

A theodolite is a precision instrument for measuring angles in the horizontal and vertical planes.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an American multinational biotechnology product development company, created in 2006 by the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific.

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Thermocouple

A thermocouple is an electrical device consisting of two dissimilar electrical conductors forming electrical junctions at differing temperatures.

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Thermometer

A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or a temperature gradient.

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Torque

Torque, moment, or moment of force is rotational force.

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Voltage

Voltage, electric potential difference, electric pressure or electric tension (formally denoted or, but more often simply as V or U, for instance in the context of Ohm's or Kirchhoff's circuit laws) is the difference in electric potential between two points.

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Voltmeter

A voltmeter is an instrument used for measuring electrical potential difference between two points in an electric circuit.

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Waters Corporation

Waters Corporation is a publicly traded Analytical Laboratory instrument and software company headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts.

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Weighing scale

Weighing scales (or weigh scales or scales) are devices to measure weight.

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Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science is a Museum attached to the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, which houses an extensive collection of scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs, books and other material related to the history of science.

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William Jones (optician)

William Jones (1763–1831) was an English maker of optical and other scientific instruments, who had Thomas Jefferson among his customers in London.

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454 Life Sciences

454 Life Sciences was a biotechnology company based in Branford, Connecticut that specialized in high-throughput DNA sequencing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_instrument

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