Scientific instrument

Scientific instrument

A scientific instrument is an apparatus or equipment used to collect datas in a scientific domain.

The scientific instruments are part of a laboratory equipment, but are considered larger or more sophisticated than other measuring instruments. It is coupled with any kind of data logger, which is more and more often a computer.

List of scientific instruments

For lists of astronomical instruments, see : List of telescope types or List of astronomical interferometers at visible and infrared wavelengths
* DNA sequencer, molecular biology
* Electroscope
* Magnetograph

List of scientific instruments manufacturers

* 454 Life Sciences, United States of America
* Agilent Technologies, United States of America
* A. Reyrolle & Company
* Beckman Coulter, United States of America
* Bruker Biosciences Corporation
* Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, United Kingdom
* Oxford Instruments, United Kingdom
* PerkinElmer, United States of America
* Presearch
* Varian, Inc.

List of scientific instruments designers

See : List of astronomical instrument makers
* Jones, William
* Kipp, Petrus Jacobus
* Le Bon, Gustave
* Roelofs, Arjen
* Schöner, Johannes
* Von Reichenbach, Georg Friedrich

History of scientific instruments

* Boerhaave Museum
* Deutsches Museum
* History of science and technology in the People's Republic of China
* Royal Victoria Gallery for the Encouragement of Practical Science
* Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Related topics

* Instrumentation
* Instrumentalism, a philosophic theory
* List of collectibles


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