Welcome to PV Scientific Instruments, your resource for scientific instruments, information, services, and educational programs relating to the early history of electricity, magnetism, wireless, and atomic physics.
Here at PV Scientific Instruments you will find custom-built, historically accurate reproductions of scientific instruments used by early inventors to develop an understanding of the scientific fundamentals and technical principles on which current technologies are based. Whether you want to reproduce all or part of an 18th, 19th, or early 20th century physics laboratory, experience what it was like to use an early crystal set (the precursor of today's wireless technology), or find sources of detailed information about early electrical experimentation, this is the place to be.
Our reproductions of classical and electromagnetic devices include
Wimshurst machines
Leyden jars
Lodge syntonic oscillators
Franklin's bells
corona motors
electroscopes
induction coils
Crookes tubes
and
Geissler tubes.
For radio hobbyists, we offer
crystal radio sets
regenerative radios, and
radio kits that are exceptional because they include antique and vintage parts and employ the best original circuits of the 1920s and 1930s for a truly historical and enjoyable experience.
For those on a quest for knowledge, we offer a choice selection of reprints of
classic books and articles
on topics related to the construction and use of early electrical instruments, reprints of contemporary papers on the work of
Nikola Tesla,
and
used and rare books
of interest to electrical engineers and experimenters, physicists, and astronomers.
Our lectures and demonstrations will bring your group into the presence of scientific history at its most exciting. Our ASRT-approved lecture-demonstration on the scientific history of x-ray introduces people to the pioneers and martyrs of x-ray technology and the real history of how x-ray came to be discovered and developed. We also offer spectacular static-electrical demonstrations, thundering Tesla coil demonstrations, and enlightening vacuum discharge tube demonstrations.
Our consulting services will bring you the information you seek about historical personalities who performed ground-breaking experiments, the relationships among them, the scientific instruments they built and used, and ideas for exhibits and educational programs that fascinate audiences. These services include helping institutions identify early electrical and magnetic instruments in their collections.
For more information about our products or services, please call us at
607 387-6752
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