Scientific Instrumentation: It's Older Than You Think

Authors

Document Type

Article

Abstract

If you accidentally walked into the wrong room at a university and found yourself surrounded by balances, glass tubing, Bunsen burners, flasks, beakers and the like, you could safely assume that you had entered a chemistry laboratory. Had the room been filled with timers, force tables, pulleys, oscilloscopes and the like, it might be a physics lab. The tools and instruments a scientist uses betray not only his profession but often his current line of research and the questions he is asking. In the space below a major scientific instrument is described. Read the list slowly and try to identify the instrument.

Publication Date

April 1975

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

12

Issue

2

First Page

16

Last Page

18

Comments

Original source: GSTA Newsletter, January, 1974

Copyright

© Copyright 1975 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

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application/pdf

Recommended Citation

(1975) "Scientific Instrumentation: It's Older Than You Think," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 12: No. 2, Article 10.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol12/iss2/10