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conclu- sions about the Potenzmaschine’s production as well as its uses. Differently skilled makers likely created the parts, and the Potenzmaschine may have been used for both public lecture demonstrations [...] ball weight to be much bigger, revealing our assumption about its use for large demonstrations. We speculated the object may have been used for demonstrating and teaching me- chanical principles, rather [...] in the 1770s or shortly after. Either Kennedy or Epp may have used the Potenzmaschine in their public lecture-demonstrations. Additionally, it may have been used to demonstrate the transformation of
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He remembered the computer and other devices that have not been used for years and initiated a donation to the museum. Keywords: Objektbiographie, Gesamtschule Marktoberdorf, Karl Weinhart, HP Calculator [...] user interaction that makes a programmable calculator so easy to use.“ (Spangler 1972b: 14) Es handelt sich bei dem Modell somit um einen Desktopcomputer ähnlichen Rechner. In den frühen 70er Jahren
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57163). In this essay I examine the biography of this object by using a material culture approach. Apart from viewing the instruments history, it will be reasoned how its function, the inventor, the
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century, in fact, regionally different measures of weight were in use (Mozhnik, 1848). 8 This is a measure of weight formerly used in Germany, the Netherlands and some other parts of Europe, equivalent [...] of the liquid in the glass containers), the device is ready to be used. The hydrogen which gradually escapes during the continued use of the machine is replaced by the reaction of the zinc as long as the [...] the lever (Fig. 9). The groove already described could have been used to connect the string, probably coming out from one of the holes, with the lever. 11 A Leyden jar is a device used for storing static
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Fig. 4). Probably, during the use of the instrument, the front cover was lost and today the laser is uncovered. The laser in study is only accompanied by a power source [...] (who acquired the laser? For what purpose? Until when was it used and what for?). At this point, it is not possible to match the laser with specific uses/experiments or scientists/institutions. Trade [...] to the historian about the role of this object. Other approaches using oral history could give light about the uses and practices of lasers in the museum context. Further research must focus on the
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mailbox.tu-berlin.de The Galton Whistle In this article the author uses the Winterthur model from material culture studies in order to analyse the Galton Whistle as a historical source. Her question is [...] users of this scientific, medical instrument. As it turns out, using the model requires a careful discrimination between emic and etic approaches. Keywords: Material Culture, History of Physics,
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and functionality, as well as the people who made, sold, and use(d) it. In this essay, using a material culture approach, I will present a possible biography of a Camera Lucida which was donated to [...] 2006), for which there was no need of filter use. The sold models were once again used according to their original purpose, that is, to facilitate the delineation of objects in [...] , stored it in a personal case and used it to for his architectural drawings and/or teaching. Probably, one of his daughters inherited the camera and used it to develop her
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some of the instrument’s features hint that it might have been used for several scientific purposes at once – i.e. as an Atwood Machine and Tribometer – and tries to interpret this in the context of [...] dahinterstehende Philosophie illustrierten. “Demonstration devices were used as part of the process of fixing and regulating the meanings natural philosophers gave to the doctrines which they taught”, so (
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11. It says, that the FT-403 is “designed for studio photographic use in large reflectors” and “recommended for black-and-white photography” (General Electric 1954, 11). The FT-503 has the same physical [...] The new technology changed high-speed photography sustainably by using electrical gas discharge. Through its spectral distribution close to that of daylight or lightning flashes in natural events and [...] widely and nothing was said about the strobe system that was used. Most previous strobe photographs, when published, had a mention of the system used. This meant to me that strobe (electronic flash
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ANGER, LOVE and SADNESS experts and laypersons demonstrate in their use of metaphorical expressions and how their emotion concepts differ. For this purpose, two complementary studies are brought together [...] determine if these findings are due to a genre-specific language use, a second study in a different genre was conducted. The corpus of this complementary study consists of spoken data collected in [...] that are used in authentic discourse. Furthermore, we discuss what can be inferred about the discourse participants’ concepts of these emotions.