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Physics looks for the laws governing matter and energy. Measuring pressure, heat or light called for ever finer instruments. The 17th and 20th centuries were its two great turning points. Its results feed most of the other sciences and many technologies.
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by Lucien Vidi
Passionate about the barometer, a physicist from Nantes sank his fortune into it and could carry on only thanks to a friend. His idea: a flat metal box sealed under partial vacuum, whose spring compresses or expands with the pressure of the air.
Photo: Saperaud~commonswiki (CC BY-SA 3.0)
by Katharine Burr Blodgett
On glass, one can lay oily coatings only a few nanometres thick. A physicist at General Electric made from them a glass with very low reflection and patented her method on 16 March 1938.
Photo: User:Mattes (CC BY-SA 3.0)
by John Davis
Observing the Sun with a quadrant is very hard because of its glare. So people stood beside the instrument and watched the cast shadow. That took two people and was hardly more accurate. This angle-measuring instrument succeeded the quadrant for finding a ship's position at sea.
Photo: Rama (CC BY-SA 3.0 fr)
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