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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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    Plate 36: Pyrotechnic wreath and ball

    • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten
    • 1660

    Fig. 83: Storm wreath.
    Fig. 84: Fireball.

    • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
    • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
    • Subject Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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    Plate 18: Pyrotechnic waterball

    • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten
    • 1660
    • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
    • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
    • Subject Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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