Dear Brady, I am a medical student and I wondered if there are some remarkable medical tools or other interesting objects/papers with a medical background at the Royal Society. I would love to come to the Royal Society myself but it will be a while until I find the time to come to London. That is why I wanted to ask you to consider the topic for one of the next videos. Good luck and please keep making these videos, they are awesome.
It's funny seeing all the brass parts of this antique instrument in its original wood box, all packed in 21st century wax paper, styrofoam, and plastic Ziplock bags.
I cannot tell you how much I thoroughly enjoy these videos. Well done to Keith, the Royal Society and of course Brady. I hope to be enjoying them for a long time to come.
I love old scientific instruments like this, as well as old scientific manuscripts & treatises & the like. Objectivity is a perfect channel for me! Excellent work, Brady, Keith, & all other Royal Society staff. You are awesome! :)
I love old scientific equipment like this one. Each piece being meticulously hand-crafted and assembled by someone who was passionate about their work. I can't imagine many things made today that will be in perfectly working order 200 years from now.
I'm getting nearer and nearer to present days, I do hope they go on untill and after my current present. I hope there will be a bit more about electricity in the ones I haven't seen yet as the story of electricity and electronic are my big interests. There's only been a couple, at most a few episodes related to those fields so far. I really want to see instruments handled by one of my heroes, Faraday, if the Royal Society has any.
All I can think about is how +Clickspring could make this... Looks like a project well worth the money, especially if done by an Australian like Clickspring.
Why did the RS send them off with quadrants, when the more accurate and easier-to-use sextants were available? Admittedly it was a relatively new technology, but not unproven.
Looks expensive, and massive.... I would have thought there was a cheaper way to measure the angle to something...? I mean, for them to go looking for it, and having to borrow it from RS in the first place, sailing it across the globe like some unique artifact... All in a nice case and everything... Actually, I thought a quadrant was a VERY basic tool... Is this one particularly accurate or what?
+Phil Boswell EPS was first made in 1941, before that people could have used lots of things. Straw was used for stuff that could break easily and custom build wooden supports where placed inside cases to keep larger materials from sliding around.