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Exhibit 2005--CHSI's Putnam Gallery

The CHSI's permanent exhibition of instruments, entitled Time, Life & Matter, represents the remarkable breadth and historical significance of the materials in the collection.

The award-winning exhibition opened in late 2005.

28-inch celestial globe

28-inch celestial globe

Benjamin Martin
1757
56-hour marine chronometer

56-hour marine chronometer

William Bond and Son
circa 1860
Adams's universal compound microscope

Adams's universal compound microscope

George Adams (I)
circa 1770
adjustable inclined plane

adjustable inclined plane

English
1766-1790
air pump

air pump

Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet
1745-1749
altazimuth theodolite

altazimuth theodolite

George Adams (I)
1760-1795
altazimuth theodolite

altazimuth theodolite

William Cary
1789-1825
ammeter with strip chart recorder

ammeter with strip chart recorder

Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory
1948
anamorphosis cards

anamorphosis cards

French
1770-1800
anamorphosis mirror

anamorphosis mirror

English
circa 1765
apparatus for measuring angle of incidence

apparatus for measuring angle of incidence

Benjamin Martin
circa 1765
apparatus for the recombination of refracted light

apparatus for the recombination of refracted light

Louis Jules Duboscq
1850-1880
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