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    This document lists various scientific instruments, including: - Instruments that measure things like temperature, pressure, wind speed, altitude, depth, volume, electrical current, magnetic flux, and more. Some examples given are thermometers, barometers, anemometers, altimeters, fathometers, and galvanometers. - Instruments used in fields like medicine, chemistry, astronomy, and physics. Examples provided include cardiographs, calorimeters, colorimeters, cryometers, and electron microscopes. - Machines and devices that convert various forms of energy, like dynamos that convert mechanical to electrical energy and electric motors that do the opposite. Cinematographs, gramophones, and computers are

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    This document lists various scientific instruments, including: - Instruments that measure things like temperature, pressure, wind speed, altitude, depth, volume, electrical current, magnetic flux, and more. Some examples given are thermometers, barometers, anemometers, altimeters, fathometers, and galvanometers. - Instruments used in fields like medicine, chemistry, astronomy, and physics. Examples provided include cardiographs, calorimeters, colorimeters, cryometers, and electron microscopes. - Machines and devices that convert various forms of energy, like dynamos that convert mechanical to electrical energy and electric motors that do the opposite. Cinematographs, gramophones, and computers are

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    ⛩LIST OF SOME IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS⛩

    ƝAir Cooler: An apparatus for cooling the air. Here air is blown through water and atmosphere
    cooled.

    ƝAltimeter: An instrument used in aircraft for measuring altitudes

    ƝAmmeter: An instrument used for measuring electric current.

    ƝAnemometer: An instrument to measure the speed and pressure of the wind.

    ƝBeaufort scale: It is used to measure wind force.

    ƝBarograph: An instrument which registers automatically the altitude reached by an airplane.

    ƝBarometer: An instrument to measure atmospheric conditions and changes.

    ƝCallipers : A compass with legs for measuring the inside or outside diameter of bodies.

    ƝCalorimeter: An instrument used for measuring quantities of heat.

    ƝCarburettor: An apparatus for charging air with petrol vapours in an internal combustion
    engine.

    ƝCardiogram(ECG): Traces movements of the heart ,recorded on a Cardiograph

    ƝCathetometer: Determines heights and levels

    ƝChronometer: Determines longitude of a vessel at sea.

    ƝCinematograph: An apparatus for projecting pictures on the screen in so rapid a succession


    that picture seems to be in motion.

    ƝCrescograph: An instrument for recording electrically the response of living matter to various
    kinds of stimuli

    ƝCardiograph: Is a medical instrument for tracing heart movements.

    ƝChronometer: Is a clock to determine longitude of a vessel at sea.

    ƝCinematograph: Used for projecting pictures on the screen.

    ƝColorimeter: Compares intensity of colours

    ƝCommutator: Used in generators to reverse the direction of electric current.

    ƝCrescograph: Used for measuring growth in plants.


    ƝCryometer: Measurement of low temperature.

    ƝCyclotron: It is an apparatus for smashing atoms.

    ƝComputers: These are data-processing machines, which provide the information according to
    the requirements.

    ƝDictaphone: A trade name for a tape recorder.

    ƝDilatometer: Measures change in volume of substances

    ƝDynamo: A machine used for transforming mechanical energy into electrical energy.

    ƝElectric Motor: Machine for using electricity as a motive power.

    ƝElectrometer: An instrument for measuring electrical potential differences.

    ƝEpidiascope: For projecting fLms as well as images of opaque articles on a screen.

    ƝEudiometer: It is a glass tube for measuring volumes changes in the chemical reactions
    between gases.

    ƝElectroscope: Detects presence of an electric Charge

    ƝElectron microscope: Used to obtain a magnifying view of very small objects (20,000 times).

    ƝFathometer: Is an instrument used for measuring depth of the ocean

    ƝFluxmeter: Measures magnetic flux

    ƝGalvanometer: Measures electric current

    ƝGramophone: A machine for reproducing recorded sound.

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