This book offers selected studies of instruments on display in museums, national fairs, universal exhibitions, patent offices, book frontispieces, theatrical stages, movie sets, and on-line collections. The authors argue that these displays, as they have changed with time, refle…
During their active lives, scientific instruments generally inhabit the laboratory, observatory, classroom or the field. But instruments have also lived in a wider set of venues, as objects on display. As such, they acquire new levels of meaning; their cultural functions expand.…
This study examines the display of scientific instruments in venues beyond the laboratory or the classroom, in museums, fairs, universal exhibitions, theatres, movies, book frontispieces, and patent offices.
CONTROL, INSTRUMENTATION, AND DESIGNIntroductionControl EngineeringControl System ArchitecturesOrganization of the BookProblemsCOMPONENT INTERCONNECTION AND SIGNAL CONDITIONINGComponent InterconnectionImpedance CharacteristicsAmplifiersAnalog FiltersModulators and DemodulatorsAn…
Introduction -- Introduction to instrumentation -- Instrumentation and universities -- Federal agency and interagency programs and activities -- Overview of conclusions, findings, and recommendations -- Appendixes: A. Biographical information on members and staff of Committee on…
Introduction -- Introduction to instrumentation -- Instrumentation and universities -- Federal agency and interagency programs and activities -- Overview of conclusions, findings, and recommendations -- Appendixes: A. Biographical information on members and staff of Committee on…
