Scientific instrument

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A scientific instrument is an apparatus or equipment used to collect data 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.

Some scientific instruments can be quite large in size, like the large particles colliders or the radiotelescope antennas used in physics.

Scientific instruments can be found on board sounding rockets, satellites or planetary rovers and controlled by radiotelecommunication.

Contents 1 List of scientific instruments 2 List of scientific instruments manufacturers 3 List of scientific instruments designers 4 History of scientific instruments 5 Types of scientific instruments 6 Related topics 7 See also

[edit] List of scientific instruments

For lists of astronomical instruments, see : List of telescope types or List of astronomical interferometers at visible and infrared wavelengths

• Accelerometer, physical, acceleration
• Ammeter, electrical, Amperage
• Caliper, distance
• Calorimeter, heat
• DNA sequencer, molecular biology
• Dynamometer, torque
• Electroscope, electric charge
• Gravimeter, gravity
• Inclinometer, slope
• Interferometer, optics
• Magnetograph, magnetic field
• Mass spectrometer, mass
• Micrometer, distance
• Microscope, optic
• NMR spectrometer, chemistry
• Ohmmeter, electrical resistance
• Seismometer, acceleration
• Spectogram, sound
• Spectrometer, light
• Telescope, astronomy
• Time-of-flight mass spectrometer, time, mass
• Theodolite, angles, surveying
• Thermocouple, temperature
• Voltmeter, voltage

[edit] List of scientific instruments manufacturers

• 454 Life Sciences, United States of America
• Agilent Technologies, United States of America
• A. Reyrolle & Company
• AGA Group International, India, [www.againdia.com]
• Beckman Coulter, United States of America
• Bruker Biosciences Corporation
• Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, United Kingdom
• JEOL, Japan
• Hitachi High Technologies, Japan
• Mass Spectrometry Instruments, United Kingdom
• MTS Systems Corporation, USA, mechanical
• Oxford Instruments, United Kingdom
• PerkinElmer, United States of America
• Presearch
• Shimadzu Corp., Japan
• Techtron, Melbourne, Australia
• Varian, Inc.
• Shiv Dial Sud And Sons, India

[edit] List of scientific instruments designers

See the list of astronomical instrument makers and the category of instruments makers

• Jones, William
• Kipp, Petrus Jacobus
• Le Bon, Gustave
• Roelofs, Arjen
• Schöner, Johannes
• Von Reichenbach, Georg Friedrich

See also : Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers, in London

[edit] History of scientific instruments

• History of science and technology in the People's Republic of China

List of museums presenting the history of scientific instruments :

• Boerhaave Museum
• Deutsches Museum
• Royal Victoria Gallery for the Encouragement of Practical Science
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science

[edit] Types of scientific instruments

• Optical instrument
• Electronic test equipment

[edit] Related topics

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

[edit] See also

• tron, a suffix to denote a complex scientific instrument, like in cyclotron, phytotron, synchrotron, ...