"This unique piece of apparatus uses Lissajous figures to show that the ratio of the frequency ratios in a diatonic scale are ratios of small numbers. On the side is an air-driven vibrating reed with a small mirror attached to its free end....
In this demonstration apparatus, water pours into the top section of the central rotor, pivoting freely about its axis. The two pipes projecting from the bottomof the rotor are closed at the end but with a rearward-facing hole. The rotor spins as...
A hydrometer measures the specific gravity of a liquid relative to water. Nicolson's hydrometer differs from other hydrometers in being totally submerged in use.
This instrument allowed water to be heated to a temperature higher than boiling point at atmospheric pressure, resulting in considerably high pressure inside. Papin designed a model of a digester in 1680 that allowed a piston inside a cylinder to...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Santa Clara (Calif.); Turrill, Charles B. (Charles Beebe), 1854-1927; Mission gardens;
On the left is the Adobe Lodge which then extended to its juncture with the students' dining hall; the Sacristy; and the Mission Church. In the distance is the tower of the Science Building, and farther to the right, the rood of the Students'...
Santa Clara University (Calif.); Santa Clara (Calif.); Mission Santa Clara; buildings
Readying the ground for construction of Kenna Hall. In background, St. Joseph's Hall, Mission Church, O'Connor Hall, and the Alumni Science Hall can be seen.
Santa Clara University (Calif.); ; Santa Clara (Calif.); Buildings; Mission Santa Clara
Santa Clara College showing, from left, Jesuit Faculty Residence, Mission Church, Nobili's Gothic Chapel, the Science Building in the background, and the California Hotel.
Messea arrived in California in 1854, founded Santa Clara College's Science Departmtent, and purchased an impressive treasury of scientific instruments and minerals.
