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Electrical Sportsman Listen The Electrical Sportman is operated with the help of an electrostatic generator that charges the Leyden Jar on the base plate of the setup. The ‘Birds’ are electrically con
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Voltaic Crown of Cups Listen The Crown of Cups is a modification of the Voltaic Pile. A rectangular plate of copper and zinc are connected by a wire soldered to both plates and thus an "electric eleme
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Geiger Müller counter tube Listen The Geiger Müller counter tube is one of the earliest measurement devices for the field of radioactivity. Walter Müller developed it under the auspices of his thesis
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Sextant Listen The sextant was and still is a navigational instrument. It evolved from the ancient octant (eigth part of the circumference of a circle) and is used to measure the angular difference be
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Optical Experiments Listen Camera Lucida Camera Obscura Reading Stone Leeuwenhoek Microscope Newtonian Prisms Water Prism handheld Brewster type stereoscope table top stereoscopic viewer
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Experimental History of Science Listen The historical laboratory ("HistoLab") is the central place for our focus history of physics. Besides to a number of historically precise reconstructions of meas
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Identity & Culture Listen Europe as a continent and political entity is home to multiple identities and cultures with distinct expressions and histories. Academic as well as political and societal dis
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The ProRef-Alumni Network Listen Alumni-Network Welcome to the alumni page of the ProRef Program Dear alumni, dear participants, dear interested parties, Program for the Academic Preparation and Integ
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EU-Externalization of migration policies through non-state actors? NGOs/CSOs in Tunisia and Egypt Listen Paolo Cuttitta (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; ICES Research Fellow) Date: 14. November 2018, 15
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Information event on the VW Foundation’s call "Challenges for Europe" Listen Date: 18 September 2018, from 12.15 until 1.00 p.m. in RIGA 601 ICES cordially invites all interested EUF scientists to par