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Voltaic Pile Listen branch of study: electromagnetism inventor: Alessandro Volta, 1799 The Voltaic Pile consists of copper and zinc plates, between which a piece of paper or cloth is placed, which has
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Tangent Galvanometer Listen branch of study: electrodynamics A galvanometer measures an electrical current by means of the electromagnetical properties of an induction coil and the Lorentz force. The
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Water Prism Listen branch of study: optics Whilst being recognised as one of Germany's poets of the Romantic era, Goethe was also a romantic natural philosopher and natural scientist, just as one woul
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Electrical Experiments for Entertainment Purposes Listen These exhibits are experimental setups made for entertainment's sake. They could be found in the parlours of educated families throughout the 1
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Coulomb's Torsion Balance Listen branch of study: electrostatics/electrics inventor: Charles Augustin Coulomb, 1785 Coulomb's Torsion Balance is a setup based on two glass cylinders, one of 65cm lengt
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Geiger Müller counter tube Listen Geiger Mueller counter tube branch of study: radioactivity inventor: Walter Müller and Hans Geiger, 1928 The Geiger Müller counter tube is one of the earliest measure
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Millikan's apparatus for the determination of the elementary charge Listen branch of study: particle physics, electricity inventor: Robert A. Millikan, around 1910 From 1909 until 1911 Robert A. Milli
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Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment Listen Branch of study: mechanics Inventor: Galileo, around 1638 Galileo's inclined plane is a wooden beam of approximately 6,7m length the top of which has a hemic
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Litrameter Listen Branch of study: measurement devices Inventor: Robert Hare, around 1826 Robert Hare was a lecturer in chemistry at Pennsylvania University. His litrameter was represented in science
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Leyden Jars Listen branch of study: electricity / electrostatics inventors: Ewald Jürgen von Kleist and (independantly from him) Musschenbroek, both around 1745 A newly developed instrument shocked (m