by Jennifer Bazar Over the past year, members of the University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection have been working in collaboration with the Department of Psychology at…
by Erich Weidenhammer Over the spring and summer of 2011, several generous donations have made it possible for us to take the first steps towards…
by Sebastian Assenza Many extraordinary scientific instruments found their way into the UTSIC collection after being deemed obsolete by one or more of the university’s…
by Shivangi Trivedi and Erich Weidenhammer The vast majority of the instruments in the UTSIC collection come from the University of Toronto’s science departments. A…
by Erich Weidenhammer In the basement of the U of T’s Gerstein Science Library, there is a dusty set of leather-bound volumes that contain the full 1879…
by Menolly Lysne and Ari Gross Since their invention in 1622, slide rules have played an important role in early calculations. They rely on a…
by Ari Gross Hearing people talk about scientific instruments can occasionally sound like a competition for bragging rights. Who built the first electron microscope? Is…
Erich Weidenhammer (IHPST, University of Toronto) & Michael Da Silva (University of Toronto Faculty of Law) This is a reprint of the original article, published…