Audio tour Mechanics and Optics section

Welcome to the section of Mechanics and Optics.

Here you can observe instruments and apparatus made between the middle of the 1800 and the middle of the 1900.

But do you know what’s the difference between an instrument and a scientific apparatus?

A scientific instrument gives the estimate of a physical quantity, whereas a device does not give a measure, but a qualitative representation of a scientific phenomenon. It reproduces, in fact, a natural or an artificial phenomenon showing with greater evidence the relationship between two or more physical quantities.