The Michigan Tech Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments (IHSI) is a collaboration between professors Steve Walton (Social Sciences) and Andrew Fiss (Humanities). The goal of the project is to catalogue and document all the historic instruments in all departments across campus. The initial website was developed between February and April 2017.
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Two-circle Contact Goniometer
Physical Description: The two-circle contact goniometer has a tripod brass base painted black. A small brass graduated disc is connected to the center…
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Physics
Historic scientific instruments held by the Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA.
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