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This digital collection features selected scientific instruments, apparatus, and analytical tools from the Institute's museum as well as photographs, rare-book engravings, and illustrations depicting various types of equipment and machinery found in laboratories, manufacturing plants, and mechanical treatises. Inventions from book wheels to fireballs can be found here, alongside more modern innovations such as Gammacells and Geiger counters.

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    Physical Apparatus for Universities and Colleges

    • Catalog K
    • 1912

    Catalog of laboratory instruments for the physical sciences. "Both our own manufacture and that of reliable foreign makers. Especially adapted for use in universities and colleges." Index starts on page 175.

    • Author Central Scientific Company
    • Printer Evening Wisconsin Printing Company
    • Subject Catalogs, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Universities and colleges

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