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Description: | Under the title 'Mechanical Philosophy' Physics was one of the first courses to be taught at the School of Arts from 1821. It was only in the 1880s that laboratories were provided. The collection covers aspects of the following areas of Physics: electronic instrumentation, including tangent and ballistic galvanometers, potentiometers, wheatstone bridges, ammeters, voltmeters, discharge tubes etc; optical equipment, including polarising demonstration apparatus, spectrometers, photometer, camera lucida, Newton's Rings Apparatus, diffraction grating, lenses etc; heat, including calorimeters, thermometers, temperature indicators and apparatus for demonstrating energy conversion; magnetism, including bar magnet sets, magnetometers, dip circle, vibration magnetometers, Hibberts Magnetic Standard, electromagnetic balance, eddy current generator etc and sound, including Helmholdts Resonators and Savarts Wheel. There are also various items of measuring equipment including balances, planimeter, spherometer, Fortin Barometer, micrometers. | Subjects: | Physics | Source: | Heriot-Watt University | Address: | Mary Burton Centre, Level 1 Cameron Smail Librar, Heriot-Watt University,,
EH14 4AS | Contributor: | The bulk of the collection, comprising largely of residual teaching material, was identified and listed during the course of a documentation project which ran from September 1993 to April 1995. | Identifier: | HW.Phy | Relation: | HW |
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