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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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  • Vessels (Containers), Glassware

    Roman glass round bottom vase

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    Translucent green, glass round-bottomed vase with heavy rainbow luster throughout. Base of the vase is round and then attaches to a vertical tube in the center, top of the tube has an ornamental curved design that…

    • Subject Glass, Glassware, Roman, Glass blowing and working, Glassware
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments, Glassware

    Mercury thermometer

    • 1800s

    A: Bulb containing mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. Thermometer has Celsius scale with 0-100 degree range.

    B: Protective cardboard tube for the thermometer (not digitized).

    Partial immersion…

    • Subject Temperature measurements, Thermometers
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments

    Crystal puller

    • Circa 1964 – 1968

    Used to create silicon ingots for use in the semiconductor industry, this crystal puller consists of two main parts, the furnace and the puller: the furnace is cylindrical and located at the bottom of the instrument, it…

    • Creator Of Work Lorenzini, Robert E.
    • Manufacturer Elmat
    • Subject Silicon, Semiconductors
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments

    Distillation still

    • Before 2007

    Distillation is a method of separating chemical substances based on differences in their volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture. A distilled beverage is a liquid meant for consumption containing ethyl alcohol…

    • Subject Distillation apparatus, Distillation

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