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A scientific instrument is an apparatus or equipment used to collect datas in a scientific domain.

The scientific instrument
Instrument

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s are part of a laboratory equipment
Laboratory equipment

Laboratory equipment refers to the various tools and equipment used by scientists working in a laboratory. These include tools such as Bunsen burners, and microscopes as well as specialty equipment such as operant conditioning chambers, spectrophotometers and calorimeters....
, but are considered larger or more sophisticated than other measuring instrument
Measuring instrument

In the physical sciences, quality assurance, and engineering, measurement is the activity of obtaining and comparing physical quantity of real-world object and phenomenon....
s. It is coupled with any kind of data logger
Data logger

A data logger is an electronic device that records data over time or in relation to location either with a built in scientific instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors....
, which is more and more often a computer.

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

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
.

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








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A scientific instrument is an apparatus or equipment used to collect datas in a scientific domain.

The scientific instrument
Instrument

Instrument may refer to:* Instrument , a documentary of the band Fugazi, directed by Jem Cohen* Instruments , a Canadian recording ensemble* Instruments , a performance visualizer...
s are part of a laboratory equipment
Laboratory equipment

Laboratory equipment refers to the various tools and equipment used by scientists working in a laboratory. These include tools such as Bunsen burners, and microscopes as well as specialty equipment such as operant conditioning chambers, spectrophotometers and calorimeters....
, but are considered larger or more sophisticated than other measuring instrument
Measuring instrument

In the physical sciences, quality assurance, and engineering, measurement is the activity of obtaining and comparing physical quantity of real-world object and phenomenon....
s. It is coupled with any kind of data logger
Data logger

A data logger is an electronic device that records data over time or in relation to location either with a built in scientific instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors....
, which is more and more often a computer.

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

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
.

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

List of scientific instruments

For lists of astronomical instruments, see : List of telescope types
List of telescope types

There are three main types of optical telescopes - and these are divided into subgroups. They all have their different advantages and disadvantages and they are used in different areas of astronomy....
 or List of astronomical interferometers at visible and infrared wavelengths
List of astronomical interferometers at visible and infrared wavelengths

Current Performance of Ground-Based Interferometers Here is a list of currently existing astronomical interferometer , and some parameters describing their performance....
  • DNA sequencer
    DNA sequencer

    A DNA sequencer is a scientific instrument used to automate the DNA sequencing process. It can be also considered an optical instrument as it generally analyses light signals originating from fluorochromes attached to nucleotides....
    , molecular biology
  • Electroscope
    Electroscope

    An electroscope is an early scientific instrument that is used to detect the presence and magnitude of electric charge on a body. It was the first electrical measuring instrument....
  • Magnetograph
    Magnetograph

    A magnetograph is one of two types of scientific instrument:* A special type of magnetometer that records a time plot of the local magnetic field near the instrument; or...
  • NMR spectrometer
  • Time-of-flight mass spectrometer


List of scientific instruments manufacturers

  • 454 Life Sciences
    454 Life Sciences

    454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, is a biotechnology company based in Branford, Connecticut specializing in high-throughput DNA sequencing using a novel massively parallel sequencing-by-synthesis approach....
    , United States of America
  • Agilent Technologies
    Agilent Technologies

    Agilent Technologies , or Agilent, is a company which designs and manufactures instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation. The company's headquarters are in Santa Clara, California, California....
    , United States of America
  • A. Reyrolle & Company
    A. Reyrolle & Company

    A. Reyrolle & Company was a British engineering firm, which for many years was one of the largest employers on Tyneside....
  • AGA Group International, India, [www.againdia.com]
  • Beckman Coulter
    Beckman Coulter

    Beckman Coulter Inc., is a company that makes biomedical laboratory instruments. Founded by Caltech professor Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented, the company eventually grew to employ over 10,000 people, with $2.4 billion in annual sales by 2004....
    , United States of America
  • Bruker Biosciences Corporation
    Bruker Biosciences Corporation

    Bruker Biosciences Corporation was a Massachusetts-based company formed in 2003 which develops and manufactures scientific instrumentation for academic research and industrial use....
  • Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
    Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company

    Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company was a company founded in 1881 by Horace Darwin and Albert George Dew-Smith to manufacture Measuring instrument....
    , United Kingdom
  • JEOL
    JEOL

    is a notable manufacturer of electron microscopes and other scientific instruments. Its headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan, with 25 subsidiaries and two associated companies....
    , Japan
  • Mass Spectrometry Instruments, United Kingdom
  • Oxford Instruments
    Oxford Instruments

    Oxford Instruments plc is a United Kingdom manufacturing and research company specialising in the design, manufacture and support of high-technology tools and systems for industry, research, education, space, energy, defence and healthcare....
    , United Kingdom
  • PerkinElmer
    PerkinElmer

    PerkinElmer, Inc. is an American Multinational corporation technology corporation, focused in the business areas of: Life and Analytical Sciences, Optoelectronics, and Fluid Sciences....
    , United States of America
  • Presearch
    Presearch

    Presearch was founded in 1991 with the aim of providing elegant solutions to emerging issues in HPLC and related techniques. Presearch is now the distributor for over 21 scientific manufacturers....
  • Shimadzu Corp.
    Shimadzu Corp.

    is a manufacturer of precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equipment, based in Kyoto, Japan.The company was established by Genzo Shimadzu in 1875....
    , Japan
  • Techtron
    Techtron

    Techtron Appliances was established in 1938 by Mr Geoffrey S.V. Frew, and manufactured electronic equipment to order in North Melbourne, Australia....
    , Melbourne, Australia
  • Varian, Inc.
    Varian, Inc.

    Varian, Inc. is one of the largest manufacturers of scientific instruments for the scientific industry; they have offerings over the whole range of chemical analysis equipment, with a particular focus on Information Rich Detection and Vacuum technology....


List of scientific instruments designers

See the list of astronomical instrument makers
List of astronomical instrument makers

The following is a list of astronomical instrument makers, along with lifespan and country of work, if available.A B C ...
 and the category of instruments makers
  • Jones, William
    William Jones (optician)

    William Jones was an England optician and instrument maker who later formed a partnership with his younger brother Samuel Jones . W. & S. Jones were among the most successful scientific instrument makers in London during the late 18th and early 19th centuries....
  • Kipp, Petrus Jacobus
    Petrus Jacobus Kipp

    Petrus Jacobus Kipp was a Dutch apothecary, chemist and instrument maker. He became known as the inventor of the Kipp apparatus, chemistry equipment for the development of gases....
  • Le Bon, Gustave
    Gustave Le Bon

    Gustave Le Bon was a France social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behaviour and crowd psychology....
  • Roelofs, Arjen
    Arjen Roelofs

    Arjen Roelofs was a Netherlands astronomer....
  • Schöner, Johannes
    Johannes Schöner

    File:Johannes Schoner Astronomer 01.jpgJohannes Sch?ner was a renowned and respected Germany Humanist Renaissance Mathematicus. It is best to refer to him using the usual 16th century Latin term "mathematicus", as the areas of study to which he devoted his life were very different from those now considered to be the domain of the mathema...
  • Von Reichenbach, Georg Friedrich
    Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach

    Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach , Germans scientific instrument maker, was born at Durlach in Baden on August 24 1772....


See also : Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers
Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers

The Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers is one of the Livery Company of the City of London. The organisation was formed in 1956, and the City granted it Livery status in 1964....
, in London

History of scientific instruments

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

    For more than a century People's Republic of China's leaders have called for rapid development of science and technology, and science policy has played a greater role in national politics in China than in many other countries....


List of museums presenting the history of scientific instruments :
  • Boerhaave Museum
    Boerhaave Museum

    Museum Boerhaave is a museum of the history of science and medicine, based in Leiden, The Netherlands. The museum hosts a collection of historical scientific instruments from all disciplines, but mainly from medicine, physics, and astronomy....
  • Deutsches Museum
    Deutsches Museum

    The Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of technology and science, with approximately 1.3 million visitors per year and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology....
  • Royal Victoria Gallery for the Encouragement of Practical Science
    Royal Victoria Gallery for the Encouragement of Practical Science

    The Royal Victoria Gallery for the Encouragement of Practical Science was an adult education institution and exhibition gallery in Victorian era Manchester, a commercial enterprise intended to educate the general public about science and its industrial applications....
  • Whipple Museum of the History of Science
    Whipple Museum of the History of Science

    The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, formerly the Perse School, having now relocated, holds an extensive collection of scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs, books and other material related to the history of science....


Types of scientific instruments

  • Optical instrument
    Optical instrument

    An optical instrument either processes light waves to enhance an image for viewing, or analyzes light waves to determine one of a number of characteristic properties....


Related topics

  • Instrumentation
    Instrumentation

    Instrumentation is the branch of science that deals with measurement and control.An instrument is a device that measures or manipulates variables such as flow, temperature, level, or pressure....
  • Instrumentalism
    Instrumentalism

    In the philosophy of science, instrumentalism is the view that concepts and theories are useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false , but by how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena....
    , a philosophic theory
  • List of collectibles
    List of collectibles

    Popular collectibles listed here are primarily those described in Wikipedia articles:...