Product Description: Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects...read more

Product Description: This 7th volume in the Artefacts series—a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, the Deutches Museum, and the London Science Museum—looks at a number of significant instruments that were created to serve various scientific purposes...read more

When a young computer genius is able to tap into the American computerized defense system, he risks setting off a nuclear war

Product Description: In this book, Yoshimura provides a review of the UHV related development during the last decades. His very broad experience in the design enables him to present us this detailed reference. After a general description how to design UHV systems, he covers all important issue in detail, like pumps, outgasing, Gauges, and Electrodes for high voltages...read more

Product Description: The goal of this book is to help students learn to use LabVIEW™ on their own. Learning with LabVIEW is the textbook that accompanies the LabVIEW Student Edition from National Instruments, Inc. This textbook, as well as the LabVIEW software (LabVIEW software is not included with this book), has undergone a significant revision from the previous edition...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: The second edition of a bestseller, Design Controls for the Medical Device Industry provides a comprehensive review of the latest design control requirements, as well as proven tools and techniques to ensure your company’s design control program evolves in accordance with current industry practice...read more

Product Description: This modern presentation comprehensively addresses the principal issues in modern instrumentation, but without attempting an encyclopaedic reference. It covers the most important topics in electronics, sensors, measurements and acquisition systems, and will be an indispensable reference for readers in a wide variety of disciplines...read more

Product Description: This best-selling book removes the mystery in building scientific apparatus. It shows how the practicing scientist can capitalize on new and unfamiliar technologies without first acquiring an engineering education in each field. The mechanical, electronic, and optical aspects of most apparatus are reviewed in the construction, selection, specification, and procurement of many important components and are described in a clear, simple manner, making use of hundreds of illustrations...read more

The Tools Used By Scientists Are Addressed In This Title. Beakers, Scales, Microscopes, Scientific Calculators, And Other Important Things Used To Investigate And Create New Technology. Communicating With These Tools Via Satellite Or Sensors That Are Being Developed To Warn People Of Tsunamis Are Just Part Of The Many Science Tools Talked About In This Title.

Product Description: Current reconstructions of historical scientific instruments with revealing information on how they actually were made and worked.

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This title presents the general principles of instrumentationprocesses. It explains the theoretical analysis of physicalphenomena used by standard sensors and transducers to transform aphysical value into an electrical signal. The pre-processing ofthese signals through electronic circuits – amplification,signal filtering and analog-to-digital conversion – is thendetailed, in order to provide useful basic information. Attention is then given to general complex systems. Topicscovered include instrumentation and measurement chains, sensormodeling, digital signal processing and diagnostic methods and theconcept of smart sensors, as well as microsystem design andapplications. Numerous industrial examples punctuate thediscussion, setting the subjects covered in the book in theirpractical context.