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Custom-made wooden box with brass coloured hindges containing an apparatus for levelling angles. Instrument is rectangular in shape with brass components with two view finders in top corners; pendulum-type gauge which measures "inclination per FOOT"…

Apparatus for determining g from the dynamics of a falling plate. With 4 tuning forks for timing.

Medium sized Apps' induction coil on wooden base. Serial No. 583 .

Apron, in tapestry work, decorated with copper, beads and copper wire. Bulgaria or Yugoslavia? (see Museum's 'Slip Catalogue).

a collection of pointolite arc lamps. Seven lamps in six boxes in one cardboard container. There appears to be two types, 100V-250V 150CP AC BC and 100V-250V 100CP BC gas filled. Marked 'Royal Ediswan'; perhaps projection lamps

'Aristotle’s Watering Pot' was another demonstration piece in Professor Patrick Copland’s repertoire about 200 years ago.

Tipping up the pot while holding a thumb over the air-hole above the handle, it could be filled through the spout. With the…

This article describes two, peaceable Chartist meetings in Aberdeen. At the second of these, it was decided to order a gun and bayonet for each of the five hundred plus members of the 'National Guard' of Chartists.