http://www.isin.org/
The Online Register of Scientific Instruments is an international database of historic scientific instruments and related objects available via the Internet. It is developed and supported by the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford in association with the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science
The primary purpose of the Online Register is to provide an efficient, centralised, widely available register of historic scientific instruments and related objects that exist in dispersed collections of all kinds from around the globe. It is analogous to a computerised library catalogue in that it holds only a limited amount of key information about each instrument: the information most commonly used to allow an instrument to be located. It does not contain any detailed information about an instrument's form, use, or history. It is a gateway only - a stepping-off point to more extensive information that will be held by institutions themselves, whether on-line or off-line.
As in a computerised library catalogue, visitors to the Online Register can search through the key indexes of the register for certain keywords, phrases, or any other text pattern. In addition, visitors may browse through any of the available indexes alphabetically.
| Source | Museum of the History of Science in Oxford; Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science |
| Difficulty | Easy |
| Compatibility | N/A |
| Rating | 0 |
| Language | en |