Online Scientific Instrument Videos

Over the years a modest collection of videos demonstrating scientific instruments have appeared on the internet. This page shows a collection of those produced by various organisations and individuals worldwide.

Italy

• Liceo Paolo Sarpi, Bergamo
  • 360° views of their collections and displays

France

• Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
  • Mechanics
  • Transport
  • Electricity

• La Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Brest
  • Exponential ex machina – A quest from history to action

Germany

• Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich
  • Grand Orrery by George Adams
  • Automaton clock in form of a parrot
  • Magnificent clock by Johann I Bartermann
  • Art clock: Large musical mechanism with a deer hunt
  • Art clock: Large musical mechanism
  • Art clock: clockwork with chimes
  • The lathe for turning ivory by Max Emanuels, Kurfürst von Bayern

• Arithmeum, Bonn
  • Historical calculating machines and early computers

• Europa Universität Flensburg
  • The Cloud Chamber
  • Jacobi Motor
  • Faraday’s Motor
  • Volta’s Electrophorus
  • Lichtenberg’s double electrophorus (1)
  • Lichtenberg’s double electrophorus (2)
  • Lichtenberg’s double electrophorus (3)
  • Lichtenberg’s dust figures
  • Joule’s Paddlewheel Experiment
  • Joule’s Paddlewheel Experiment (Inner Detail)

The Netherlands

Spain

• University of Cádiz
  • Amsler mechanical integrator

Switzerland

• ETH Zurich
  • Astronomical Instruments Collection
  • Candle powered target marker
  • Scientific Instruments & Teaching Aids (Planimeter designed by Kaspar Wetli (1822 – 1899))
  • Scientific Instruments & Teaching Aids (Snow density meter with grey-wedge photometer)

• Musée d’histoire des sciences de Genève
  • Le tube de Crookes
  • Electrostatic generator
  • Le générateur électrostatique
  • Mini electric motor
  • Aurora borealis machine
  • Motorised Geissler tube
  • De la Rive’s electric egg
  • Crooke’ tube
  • Gas discharge tube (beetle)
  • Hydrostatic balance first experiment
  • Electrostatic balance second experiment
  • Intermittent fountain
  • Watt Steam Engine
  • La machine à vapeur de Watt
  • La machine à vapeur de bateau
  • Steam boat engine
  • Automatic noon gun

United Kingdom

• History of Science Museum, Oxford
  • Astronomy
  • Electricity
  • Penicillin
  • Views of the collection

United States

• The Smithsonian Institute
  • An instructional video on Wave Machines.

• Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard
  • Kymograph: Principle, Preparation, Use
  • Kymograph: What is Inside
  • Marey’s Tambour: Principle, Preparation, Use

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