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Outline

  • Origins of the Familiar (& the Less Familiar)
    pneumatic trough & gasometer | Bunsen burner (& spectroscope) | Erlenmeyer flask | Petri dish (& culture plates) | test tube | telescope (& radio telescope) | microscope (& electron microscope) | compass, galvanometer | magnetometer | oscilloscope (& "Crookes"/vacuum/cathode-ray tube)
  • Significance: Joule's mechanical equivalent of heat; Coulomb's law of electrostatic attraction
  • Intro to reading: CTR Wilson & Atmospheric Optical Effects
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  • [Intro] / Discussion:
  • Epilog


    1. MRI
    2. cloud chamber
    3. lab bench
    4. measuring skulls: mustard seed & shot
    5. collecting gases
    6. Lavoisier memorial
    7. gasometer
    8. . . . and a Newcommen engine
    9. "Bunsen" burner
    10. alcohol burner
    11. Robert Bunsen & spectroscope
    12. spectra lines w/ cesium, thallium
    13. "Desdega" burner?
    14. Lavoisier's combustion flask
    15. round-bottomed flask
    16. Erlenmeyer & "his" flask
    17. Petri dish
    18. Robert Koch & cholera
    19. culture flask & Petri dish
    20. Alexander Fleming & his penicillin culture
    21. test tubes
    22. chemistry kits, w/ wine glasses
    23. Galileo's telescope
    24. lens [van Eyck, 1436]
    25. lunar surface [Galileo]
    26. sunspots [Galileo]
    27. Galileo's notebooks on the moons of Jupiter
    28. Jocelyn Bell and radio telescopes, new & old
    29. pulsar signal
    30. microscope
    31. Leuvenhoek's microscope(s) (recconstruction)
    32. compund microscope with image by Robert Hooke
    33. view of Thames water, 1828
    34. cells, 1884
    35. endoplasmic reticulum
    36. mesosome
    37. compass
    38. Chinese geomancer's spoon
    39. galvanometer
    40. . . . how it works
    41. magnetometer
    42. polar wandering
    43. oscilloscope
    44. Crookes & "his" tube
    45. cathode ray tube
    46. J.J. Thomson
    47. oscilloscope
    48. television (or computer monitor)
    49. Joule's mechanical equivalent of heat
    50. the paddles
    51. Coulomb's apparatus (reconstruction)

    52. bubble chamber image
    53. Charles Thompson Rees Wilson
    54. Ben Nevis
    55. . . . with rainbow
    56. & again
    57. meteorological observatory
    58. solar fogbow
    59. lunar halo (similar to corona)
    60. glories
    61. -- 70. Ashcroft's images of atmosphere affected by Krakatoa fallout

      71. Wilson's cloud chamber photograph of ions, 1911
      72. positron track, 1932


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