Recently discovered, the earliest dated English scientific instrument is going under the hammer at Christie's auction house in London on Wednesday. The palm-sized copper-alloy "horary quadrant ...

One side of the device was used to tell the date of Easter Sunday. Christie's Images LTD. 2023 Billed as the “earliest dated English scientific instrument,” a 700-year-old medieval device used ...

AT a meeting of the Newcomen Society held at the Science Museum on December 11, a paper by Dr. R. S. Clay and Mr. T. H. Court on “English Instrument Making in the 18th Century” was read. As is ...

McFadden began the business as an apprentice to a celebrated English instrument maker, and spent years employed by prominent European and American manufacturers, before finally establishing ...

Education Learning an instrument can help students learning English Teacher Mike Horsford said learning to read music has helped some students who are also learning to read and speak English.

So while the Scots may have made the instrument their own over the centuries, they share the piping tradition with the hands of many nationalities – including the English. Widdye credit it?

Making precisely divided scales has long been important in navigation and experimental science. In the 1780s, the English instrument maker Jesse Ramsden introduced a screw-controlled circular dividing ...

In 1775 the English instrument-maker Jesse Ramsden completed this machine, designed to divide arcs of circles automatically. The instrument has a mahogany frame with three legs and three frictionless ...