NDLI: The Evolution of Teaching Instruments and Their Use Between 1800 and 1930

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Brenni, Paolo
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the core of a typical teaching collection was composed by apparatus, which were very similar to the ones proposed in the eighteenth century by ‘s Gravesande, Nollet, Desaguliers and others lecturer demonstrators and makers. Since 1820 circa, new didactic instruments were introduced. Most of them concerned the fast developing branches of physics such as wave optics, electromagnetisms and acoustics. Instrument makers (and many scientists as well) were extremely prolific in inventing new devices for better demonstrating all the laws of physics and for clearly visualizing all its phenomena. Therefore, around 1900 all the most important German, French and British makers proposed in their thick catalogues thousands of didactic apparatus. But were all these instrument really used? Probably not. Many of them were acquired by schools and universities because they were considered “status symbol” marking the importance and the completeness of a collection. Others were simply shown as “tri-dimensional” illustrations. For various reasons, during the first decade of the twentieth century the number of available didactic instruments was drastically reduced. The introduction of student training laboratory, the increasing cost of labour and of materials after WWI, the needs of a more standardized production, the progresses of physics not only eliminated from the trade catalogues many of the classical but old fashioned instruments but also stimulated the use of modular and simpler didactic apparatus.
Starting Page	191
Ending Page	226
Page Count	36
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09267220
Journal	Science & Education
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731901
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-12-24
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Interdisciplinary Studies Science Education Philosophy of Science History
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education

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