Diagram depicting Galileo's experiment to measure the force of a ball rolled down an inclined plane. Galileo Galilei an Italian polymath. Dated 17th...
Engraving depicting a Bifilar Pendulum. A Bifilar Pendulum consists of suspending an aircraft from two parallel wires, or filars, that. Allow it to...
Photograph of a scientist testing a 'closed-circuit' laser that appears to be superior to a gyroscope for guiding spacecraft, rockets, airplanes and...
Photograph of a scientist testing a 'closed-circuit' laser that appears to be superior to a gyroscope for guiding spacecraft, rockets, airplanes and...
Experiment designed to measure the force of a falling body according to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. Dated 18th Century.
Experiment designed to measure the force of a falling body according to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. Dated 18th Century.
Experiment designed to measure the force of a falling body according to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. Dated 18th Century.
Photograph of a physicist monitoring a complex experiment using a closed respirometer. A respirometer is a general term that encompassses a number of...
Photograph of a physicist monitoring a complex experiment using a closed respirometer. A respirometer is a general term that encompassses a number of...
Engraving depicting Ole Romer's use of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites to measure the speed of light. Ole Romer a Danish astronomer. Dated 18th...
Engraving depicting Ole Romer's use of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites to measure the speed of light. Ole Romer a Danish astronomer. Dated 18th...
Engraving depicting Pouillet's Pyrheliometer, used to measure the amount of solar heat reaching the earth's surface. Claude Pouillet a French...
Pierre Curie married Marie Curie in 1895, when he was already an internationally recognised physicist. With his brother Jacques, in the 1880s, he...
Pierre Curie married Marie Curie in 1895, when he was already an internationally recognised physicist. With his brother Jacques, in the 1880s, he...
Voltameters are instruments used to measure the quantity of electric charge in a circuit, and were often used to demonstrate how gases are produced...
Voltameters are instruments used to measure the quantity of electric charge in a circuit, and were often used to demonstrate how gases are produced...
Tangent galvanometers measure current using Hans Christian Oersted's 1820 discovery of the magnetic effect produced by an electric current. The...
This device measures the current of electricity flowing in laboratory experiments. The more current, the further along the scale the weight has to be...
Tangent galvanometers measure current using Hans Christian Oersted's 1820 discovery of the magnetic effect produced by an electric current. The...
Callendar was professor of physics at McGill University, Montreal; at University College London; and at the Imperial College of Science. Callendar...
Engraving by Delafosse after L C DeCarmontel. Clairault was a child prodigy who understood differential and integral calculus and analytical geometry...
French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb is celebrated for his research into the properties of electricity and magnetism. He was one of the first...
Glass positive photograph of the corona, taken at Sobral in Brazil, with a telescope of 4 inches in aperture and 19 feet focal length. The...
This is a reproduction, made by Tisley and Spiller in 1873-1877 of an early type of tangent galvanometer. Tangent galvanometers measure current using...
The king's instrument maker, George Adams, did not make many models for King George III, but this is a particularly fine example. A hay cart was...
The king's instrument maker, George Adams, did not make many models for King George III, but this is a particularly fine example. A hay cart was...
The larger pyrometer was presented to King George III by Josiah Wedgwood, its inventor, in 1786. Wedgwood developed the instrument to measure the...
The famous 18th century science lecturer Dr Stephen Demainbray used this instrument to measure the expansion of various types of metal when heated....
The first electroscope was devised by Abraham Bennet in 1786. This improved version was developed by William Ayrton , who was responsible for...
The king's instrument maker, George Adams, did not make many models for King George III, but this is a particularly fine example. A hay cart was...
This pyrometer was presented to King George III by Josiah Wedgwood, its inventor, in 1786. Wedgwood developed the instrument to measure the high...
The famous 18th century science lecturer Dr Stephen Demainbray used this instrument to measure the expansion of various types of metal when heated....
This photograph, fig 9 from �The electron: its isolation and measurement and the determination of some of its properties� by Robert Andrews Millikan,...
Diagram, fig 8, from �The electron: its isolation and measurement and the determination of some of its properties� by Robert Andrews Millikan, ,...
Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger invented the string galvanometer in 1820. Galvanometers measure electrical current and Schweigger�s was a...
Santorio Sanctorius portrayed in an engraving from �Ars de Statica Medicina�. Sanctorius was an Italian physician and the founder of quantitative...
Leopoldo Nobili was a professor of physics in Florence. Nobili devised the astatic galvanometer and invented the thermoelectric couple....
French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb is celebrated for his researches in electricity and magnetism. He was one of the first to measure how...
Hand-coloured woodcut from the appendix of the �Margarita Philosophica� by Gregorius Reisch . First printed in 1503, this encyclopaedia of knowledge...
Hand-coloured woodcut from the �Book of Geometry�, part of the �Margarita Philosophica� by Gregor Reisch . The Medieval Jewish scholar Levi ben...
Callendar was professor of physics at McGill University, Montreal; at University College London; and at the Imperial College of Science. Callendar...
Callendar was professor of physics at McGill University, Montreal; at University College London; and at the Imperial College of Science. Callendar...
Stereoscopic daguerreotype of Biot , professor of physics at the College de France and pioneer of polarimetry. Using a polarimeter , Biot established...
Cathode ray tubes were used in experiments designed by Sir Joseph John Thomson to measure the ratio of the electric charge carried by cathode rays in...
Washington, UNITED STATES: US astrophysicist John Mather addresses a press conference at NASA headquarters in Washington 03 October 2006. Mather of...
Washington, UNITED STATES: US astrophysicist John Mather addresses a press conference at NASA headquarters in Washington 03 October 2006. Mather of...
Washington, UNITED STATES: US astrophysicist John Mather addresses a press conference at NASA headquarters in Washington 03 October 2006. Mather of...
Washington, UNITED STATES: US astrophysicist John Mather addresses a press conference at NASA headquarters in Washington 03 October 2006. Mather of...
Washington, UNITED STATES: US astrophysicist John Mather addresses a press conference at NASA headquarters in Washington 03 October 2006. Mather of...
Washington, UNITED STATES: US astrophysicist John Mather addresses a press conference at NASA headquarters in Washington 03 October 2006. Mather of...
Washington, UNITED STATES: US astrophysicist John Mather addresses a press conference at NASA headquarters in Washington 03 October 2006. Mather of...
Washington, UNITED STATES: US astrophysicist John Mather addresses a press conference at NASA headquarters in Washington 03 October 2006. Mather of...
Washington, UNITED STATES: US astrophysicist John Mather addresses a press conference at NASA headquarters in Washington 03 October 2006. Mather of...
General view of the COLLAPS installation at ISOLDE, which was able to measure to a very high precision and sensitivity, one of the highest ever...
General view of the COLLAPS installation at ISOLDE, which was able to measure to a very high precision and sensitivity, one of the highest ever...
General view of the COLLAPS installation at ISOLDE, which was able to measure to a very high precision and sensitivity, one of the highest ever...
General view of the COLLAPS installation at ISOLDE, which was able to measure to a very high precision and sensitivity, one of the highest ever...
General view of the COLLAPS installation at ISOLDE, which was able to measure to a very high precision and sensitivity, one of the highest ever...
