Natural Philosophy Collection

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E M Clarke’s Polariscope

Early X-ray Bulbs

A Dead-End Development

Helmholtz Double Siren

Head of Despair

Portable Chinese Dial Compass

Mid 19^th Century Refracting Telescope by A Ross

Master Clock by D Gill & Son, Watchmaker to the Queen

Dent Chronometer – made to last

Early Radio at Marischal College

Nobel Prize Winning Apparatus

The Camera Lucida

Whirling Table, with accessories

Joule’s Water-Churning Apparatus

Joule’s Water-Churning Apparatus

Equatorial Telescope by Sisson and Ramsden

46 Inch Achromatic of Dollond

Air Resistance Windmills

Galvanometer by Grüel of Berlin

Box of Heart shaped Metals

John Lorimer’s Dipping Compass

Aristotle’s Watering Pot

Kelvin Current Balance

Sir William Thomson’s Graded Current Meter

Sir William Thomson’s Quadrant Electrometer

Short Telescope

Apps Induction Coil - 1881 patent

Set of Cathode Ray and Electrical Discharge Tubes

Anamorphic drawing with Cylindrical Mirror

Bequerel's Phosphoroscope

Microscope and Accessories by J. Swift

Two Unusual Prisms

Binocular Microscope by Smith, Beck & Beck

Prism Spectrometer by John Browning

Faraday's Variable-Dielectric Capacitor

Faraday's Disc - The First Dynamo

Ewing's Magnetic Hysteresis Curve Tracer

The Speaking Arc

The Vernon Harcourt Standard Lamp

Early Dynamos and Motors

Departmental Intercom

Mercury Vapour Arc Rectifier

Mercury Vapour Arc Rectifier

Regnault's Calorimeter

Print of James Bowman Lindsay

Graham's Dead-beat Escapement

Everyman’s Transit Telescope

Harmonium by Alexandre et fils, Paris

Hopkin’s Fork

Foucault’s Pendulum

Halley’s Diving Bell

Transmitting Valve QY4-250

The Tuning Condenser

The Morse Telegraph Receiver

Siemen's Polarised Telegraphic Relay

Searle's Viscometer

Faraday's Rotating Magnet

Leslie's Differential Thermometer