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whole front there is a track for a slide – a plastic and rubber piece with an oval opening, with evidence of a missing piece. On one end of the tube is the inscription “DMM 2016 - 3T1” (black marker) [...] 2018). 8 The National Museum of American History (no date) Head Piece from Maiman Laser (EM.330050). Available online at: https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_712855 (Accessed May 10, 2018). 9 After one [...] kind of heritage. Old devices, out of work are used to replace pieces in similar devices. Scientific networks and knowledge transfer from Munich universities or the expertise in the museum workshop to

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• Material Culture

artifact’s design. Since the object discussed in this essay is not a piece of art, but a rather functional ob- ject, I will restrict this step mainly to the comparison of the object with others of its kind [...] to our culture. This point is obviously of special interest for pieces of art and will not take too much room in this essay.1 First approach: Description of the object When we first approached our object [...] Fig. 5: Hair hygrometer, close-up of the pointer's axis and the pieces of hair we found wrapped around it. On the right image edge the non-original black string. Source: Deutsches Museum (in- ventory

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- istence of a vacuum.3 Another argument used was that if a tiny piece of incense is burned, it can be smelled throughout the room. As the room is significantly big- ger than the space the incense initially occupied, the initial piece has to be divided into more than 750,000,000 parts. These calculations were intended to show how small the particles have to be that form the piece of incense (see Beer & Pricha 1997). Such a dis- cussion, however, remained on the level of simple cal- culations, and there was no

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• Maria Skłodowska-Curie: discoverer of two radioactive elements
• Joliot-Curie and artificial radioactivity
• Rutherford’s Nuclear Atom
• Dalton and the atoms
• Lavoisier and the conservation of mass
• Democritus and the atoms

weights went down very slowly, actu- ally they were slower than a piece of paper was falling. Winding them up again however was hard work, way too tough for James who had a weak health since his childhood

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• The hard work of experimenting James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.

Rohleder. Wiesbaden: S. Marix, 2022. 9-13. "‘I Just Wanted to Say my Piece’: Black Mirror , Attention, and the Problem of Critique." Anglistik 33.2 (2022): 245-56. "Destabilising Boundaries: Terrorism and

© Takis Lazos. Ana Paula Bispo da Silva 5 There were four glass pieces in the lens and prism set: a trapezoidal prism encased within an iron structure with two openings: a rectangular one, from where [...] the opposite angle, where the light exited the prism. A movable piece on the last opening allowed the viewer to look through the prism (pinhole). The white glass lens had 1.8 x 2.7cm, which had the same size of the blue glass pieces. The complete apparatus was free for moving with accuracy through lateral supports. The prism had a surface area of approximately

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) Storytelling Teaching Model: http://science-story-telling.eu A piece of phosphorus was placed inside a bottle as it can be seen in the sketch above. The mass of the bottle with its content is 205 gr.

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• Lavoisier and the conservation of mass

would give to our new secretary Cécile, what would it be? My one piece of advice that I would give to Cécile is that when she is busy here, it is very important to remain calm when dealing with the [...] comrades at the Northern shore of Holnis. A collection of driftwood pieces, which symbolise Thomson and his crew, should allow the viewer of the exhibition to make personal associations and encourage their [...] reading and commenting with each other on the several journalistic pieces written by heir colleagues throughout the semester under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Tobias Hochscherf from the FH Kiel. 14/11/2016

social status. He was born as the son of a weaver who owned a small piece of land, and like many children of his era, John had to work from the very early age. However, he finally had made it: Since a couple

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• Dalton and the atoms

gratitude. How will these multilingual poems and spoken-word pieces appear in different registers? Intimate, collective, ironic, tender, furious? Nothing is performed without consent. What emerges is

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• Empowerment Workshops