Measuring Natural Phenomena
Atmospheric Pressure
In the 18th century the barometer, introduced around the mid-17th century as a laboratory instrument for studying pneumatics, became an indispensable tool ...
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Meteorology
In the second half of the 18th century, systematic observation of meteorological phenomena using increasingly sophisticated instrumentation became standard ...
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Light
To study the phenomena of light, the first optical benches were introduced in the 18th century. Lenses, prisms and mirrors could be mounted on them in ...
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Electricity and Magnetism
Starting from the late 18th century, studies in electricity and magnetism, which had been basically qualitative, began to employ new measurement instruments ...
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Leopoldo Nobili’s Instruments
In the first decades of the 19th century the Italian physicist Leopoldo Nobili (1784-1835) did pioneering work in electromagnetism. He invented the thermopile, ...
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Telegraphs and Motors
After the discovery of electromagnetic phenomena, and with the invention of the electromagnet, the first telegraph systems, electric motors and electric ...