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Klappentext A comprehensive record, published in 1877, of an influential Victorian exhibition celebrating science and technology in the Western world. Zusammenfassung With over 4!500 entries! this two-volume catalogue! in its third! 1877 edition! is a comprehensive record of a major exhibition on which important collections now held at the Science Museum! London were based. It lists and describes the objects! and gives details of the organisers and contributing individuals and institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to third edition; Introduction, lists of committees, etc.; List of contributors; 1. Arithmetic; 2. Geometry; 3. Measurement; 4. Kinematics, statics and dynamics; 5. Molecular physics; 6. Sound; 7. Light; 8. Heat; 9. Magnetism; 10. Electricity; 11. Astronomy; 12. Applied mechanics.