High-tech for the 1700s — Harvard Gazette

Electrical conductors. Surveying tools. Mathematical instruments.

Harvard College, founded in 1636, was a pioneer in teaching the applied sciences. Over the centuries, the institution amassed thousands of tools used for lessons in physics, trigonometry, and more. Some of these items even…

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