The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University

Website

Location:
Science Center, rooms 136 and 251
1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA

Affiliation:
Harvard College, Department of History of Science

Founded:
1948

Collections:
This collection includes over 20,000 scientific instruments dating from 1400 to the present. These include navigation equipment, demonstration models, experimental apparatus, communication technology, and many other types of instruments.

Publications:

• The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments has been digitally cataloged. Its holdings are available through a searchable database.

• Online Exhibit: Patent Republic: Materialities of Intellectual Property in 19th-Century America  
• Online Exhibit: Time, Life, and Matter: Science in Cambridge