The Collection of Scientific Instruments and Teaching Aids documents the object-based teaching and research history of ETH Zurich since its foundation. It includes historical objects from various ...

A remarkable astrolabe showing academic collaboration between Muslims and Jews in 11th-century Spain has been fortuitously uncovered by a Cambridge University history lecturer. The discovery came last ...

Ian Lightcap had a problem. The core facility director at the University of Notre Dame had a lot of aging equipment on his hands and a plan to upgrade it—but no plan for what to do with the old ...

Gerber Scientific Instrument Company (Hartford, Conn.). Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives ...

Ancient brass instrument used to interpret the heavens turns 1,000 years old - National Museums Scotland said it was one of the rarest scientific instruments in its collection.