Forgotten Scientific Instruments
Old lab wonders to identify in 10 challenges: ready to dust off your brain cells?
What this quiz asks
- 1What is a sextant used for in traditional navigation?
- 2The planispheric astrolabe was mainly used to…
- 3The camera obscura produces…
- 4What does a Foucault pendulum in a museum demonstrate?
- 5What is an orrery (mechanical planetarium) used for?
- 6Why do the vanes of a Crookes radiometer spin?
- 7The daguerreotype is characterised by…
- 8The Cavendish torsion balance made it possible to…
- 9In experimental physiology, the kymograph mainly recorded…
- 10What does a Wilson cloud chamber let you see?
