
Originally Posted by
AntonioLao
Reference: Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, published by Science Museum, London, and National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Garland Pub., 1998.
In alphabetical order, a few of the instruments of science are: Abacus (both Eastern and Western, accelerator, ammeter, analog computer, anemometer, audiometer, balance, barometer, calorimeter, cathode ray tube, centrifuge, chronometer, cloud chamber, compass, computer, counter, cyclotron, decelerometer, densitometer, electrometer, galvanometer, Geiger counter, gyroscope, heliometer, hydrometer, interferometer, laser, magnetometer, manometer, maser, micrometer, microscope, odometer, optometer, oscilloscope, osmometer, pedometer, photometer, piezometer, polarimeter, potentiometer, prism, radiometer, refractometer, scintillation counter, seismograph, sonometer, spectrometer, telemeter, telescope, tensiometer, thermocouple, thermometer, vernier, viscometer, voltmeter, and wattmeter.
It can be asserted that two types of the oldest and the most important of all scientific instruments are ones that measure distances and the passage of time. Now then, one ultimate question of science is what existing or future instruments could be used for measuring the changes of both quantized space and time?