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TIMES have changed since Lord Bacon had to complain that “the mechanic, little solicitous about the investigation of truth, neither directs his attention nor applies his hand to anything that is not of service to his business.” The modern “interpreter of Nature “would contribute scantily to the advancement of learning were he bereft of the mechanic's services, and is by a happy thought, therefore, that the Physical and Optical Societies bring together every year the manufacturers and users of scientific instruments. At their thirteenth annual exhibition, held at the Imperial College of Science on January 3 and 4, such a wealth of beautiful, and in many cases novel, apparatus was to be seen that we can only refer to a few of the particularly interesting exhibits, selected somewhat arbitrarily.
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H., C. Exhibition of Physical Apparatus. Nature 111, 63 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111063a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111063a0