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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Diagonal machine. A small square wooden frame, about a foot wide. A slightly smaller frame slides horizontally out. A brass ball on a string and attached to a pulley on the smaller frame moves diagonally upwards as the frame is slid horizontally.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Demonstration originated by James Ferguson to illustrate that the sum of compound motions at right angles produce a diagonal displacement. Wooden frame sliding element holding with brass ball on rod that slides up rod as frame is moved sideways. Disk &quot;Univ. Abdn. Nat. Phil.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Copland]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1780-1790]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[wood, brass, string<br />
255 mm wide, 75 mm deep, height 225 mm]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ABDNP:201403a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/11390">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Insulating stand. A thin brass disc about 15 centimetres wide on a glass pillar with a turned wooden base.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wooden base with glass pillar and brass table for electrostatic experiments.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[circa 1800]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[wood, glass, brass<br />
base diameter 125 mm, table diameter 155 mm, height 215 mm]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ABDNP:201397a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/11389">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Anamorphic drawings. Four coloured drawings on paper discs with a tall curved mirror placed at the centre: a butterfly, a man on a horse, a bust of a man&#039;s head, and two men arguing; the drawings appear normal in the mirror but are stretched out and curved on the paper.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A hemispherical polished speculum cylinder mounted in a wood pillar case with brass small handle. Tin-plate storage case. Ivory maker&#039;s plate inlaid into pillar. Accompanied by a selection of early 19th century anamorphic drawings.<br />
<br />
6 anamorphic drawings on circular sheets of waxy paper. Small hole in centre of sheets:<br />
1) drawing of person in yellow cravat chained to a rock speaking with man in green jacket. Characters not yet identified.<br />
2) blue, yellow and black drawing of (swallow-tail?) butterfly<br />
3) Black and white drawing of Napoleon(?) on horseback, most of diagram black inked<br />
4) Black and white drawing of bust (could it be Wellington?, not yet checked)<br />
5) Leaf-based pattern more black than white<br />
6) Coloured drawings around 360 degrees of flowers on black ground]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[mirror: W &amp; S Jones, London]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[mirror: 1790-1820<br />
drawings: 1810-1830]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[mirror:<br />
speculum metal (copper, tin and arsenic alloy), wood<br />
box - 145mm high x 85mm x 50mm box<br />
<br />
drawings:<br />
paper, paint<br />
diameter 205 mm<br />
]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ABDNP:200412a, 201396a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/11388">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Suction pump. A glass tube with a small brass fitting covering the top and a larger one on the bottom. Hinged on to the bottom fitting is a brass plunger with the end wrapped in fabric, operated with a lever. A small pipe also projects from the bottom fitting.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wooden box containing demonstration suction pump in two parts; glass barrel illustrates operation of two valves, one at base of barrel and one in piston; instrument sits on velvet cloth and there seem to be space for other instrument. Matches item in Copland&#039;s 1822 inventory.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1790-1905]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[wood, textile, brass, glass<br />
Box: length 355 mm; width 190 mm; height 105 mm]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ABDNP:200535a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/11387">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Discharging tongs. Two metal rods with balls on the end fixed to a glass rod with a wooden handle. The metal rods are mounted on wheels allowing them to be rotated together or apart.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[twin brass rods hinged at one end fitted on a glass insulating rod and wooden handle. Each rod terminates in a brass sphere; for removal of charge from electrostatically charged spheres. Likely to be one of Copland&#039;s &quot;Discharging rod, jointed, glass handle&quot; two of which are mentioned in the 1823 inventory.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1780-1810]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[brass, glass, wood<br />
550 mm long, glass rod 15 mm diameter]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ABDNP:200471a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/11386">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Oscillating prism. A small glass prism connected to a brass mechanism with a crank.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Equiangular triangular prism, 13 mm side x 43 mm long (incl. brass ends) setting vertically on base made to oscillate 6 times for every rotation of an ivory handle. Could be the device mentioned in Copland&#039;s inventory. The design is very similar to the illustrations of C.R. Alder Wright]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1790-1890]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[glass, brass, ivory<br />
width 65 mm; depth (incl. handle) 52 mm; height 160 mm]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ABDNP:200393a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/11385">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[McCulloch&#039;s mariner&#039;s compass. A large compass consisting of a wide ring of card printed with directions and a degree scale, covered with glass and fixed on a steel strip screwed to a conical projection underneath. The compass is on a brass gimbal mount in a wooden box. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[McCulloch&#039;s patent compass in oak box without lid. Card marked in degrees, in quadrants . Embedded brass disc inside box &#039; Univ. Abdn. Nat. Phil. &#039; In single gimbals. Patent No 1663 (1788). One of only a few in museums throughout the world.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[McCulloch, compass maker, London]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1792]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[wood, brass, iron<br />
box: 262 mm square, height 170 mm; diameter of bowl 170 mm]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ABDNP:200371a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/11384">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Azimuth compass. A compass with a rotatable ring-shaped brass frame around it mounted on a heavy brass stand. The frame is marked with degree scales. Four removable rectangular plates of brass, each with a rectangular hole, a slit and three small circular holes in them, project vertically from the frame equidistant from one another.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Azimuth compass in wooden box with lid and lock and key . Brass scales. 4 sights are detachable - 2 fit on rotating compass ring and 2 on meridional line. Each sight has a slit and a cross wire one above the other. Box has inset disc &#039; Univ. Abdn. Nat. Phil. &#039; The compass is calibrated 0°-360° in an anti-clockwise direction (steps are1.0°). The main azimuth scale has<br />
an outer scale 0° - 360° in steps of 1° clockwise an adjoined scale 360° - 0° in steps of 0.5° anticlockwise an inner non-uniform scale - the sector has the same scale in 4 octants<br />
with 0 at 45° and 315° positions with labeling &#039;shadow&#039; near 0 marks. The S sector has 4 octants marked 0-10-0-10-0 starting at E with 0 at 90°, 180°, 270° points and 10 at 135° and 225° positions - divisions slightly closer nearer 10.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Dudley Adams, London]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1790-1817]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[brass, glass, paper<br />
175mm x 180mm x 65mm]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ABDNP:200369a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/11383">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Arnold&#039;s compensated escapement model. A large brass and iron contraption, on a wooden base, consisting of a wheel with two arcs of metal terminating in brass balls around the outside, on an axel with another smaller brass wheel. Underneath is another axel with a toothed wheel and a small wooden barrel on it. An irregularly bent strip of metal curls over the top axel.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Arnold&#039;s compensated escapement - demonstration of his patent No. 1328. A brass escapement on a wooden base.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[John King]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1781-1789]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[brass, wood, iron, spring metal<br />
overall height 228 mm; base width 230 mm; depth 180 mm]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ABDNP:200364a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/document/11382">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Clock movement. A small brass contraption consisting of wheels, cogs, plates, and a spring.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spring clock and movement for demonstrating the reduction of sound in vacuum; pounds 6.6.0. Brass. Some form of &#039;scale&#039; behind escapement wheel, part of an old compass dial, although no pointer evident. Fancy key, handle heart-shaped and engraved on both sides with floral designs. Mainspring broken.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[C. Lunan]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1815]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[brass]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ABDNP:200358a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description></rdf:RDF>
