Open Directory - Recreation: Antiques: Medical and Scientific
See also: - Photographs of a collection of stick barometers and wheel barometers, with details of their dates and history. Restoration and sales offered. - Sells antique medical, surgical, dental, and Civil War medical related artifacts. Online illustrated catalogue and archive of sold items. - Buyer of antique microscopes presents articles, photographs, and list of patents. - Historical and educational links with pictures. - Historical instruments of science and technology, for sale, repaired, and bought, for collectors, museums, awards for scientific achievements, replications for historical research and scientific movie props. - Buys and sells antique brass microscopes and telescopes. Credit Cards accepted. - A collection of x-ray, camera and cathode ray tubes (CRTs), as well as other electronic glassware. Includes the history of old physics equipment and links to similar sites. - A Canadian specialist in antique scientific and medical instruments since 1984. - Images of medicine-makers advertising cards. - A collection of antique tickertape machines which details the histors of Wall Street and the stock market. - Eye antiques display items from the ophthalmic past including glasses spectacles, ophthalmoscopes, microscopes, and eye exam items. - Photos and descriptions of radiation-related items from the past, including dosimeters, electroscopes, ionization chambers, radioactive sources, safety posters, quack cures, geiger-mueller counters, fluoroscopes used to fit shoes, and x-ray apparatus. - Online exhibit of varieties of medical ephemera. - Brass microscopes, optical and other scientific instruments, books about microscopes and microscopy. - Galleries of scales, weights, and measures. Scale tutorial, membership information and application. - A Kunstkammer collection of 'curiosities and wonders', where Renaissance and Baroque art meet science. Objects made from a variety of exotic materials are displayed with accompanying educational text. - Antique dealer specialised in scientifics instruments, globes and planetarium, sundials and microscopes. - Dedicated to the history of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and quackery as found in the antiques and art of the past. Introduction to the hobby and tips for beginners. - Collection includes images and descriptions of stethoscopes and other medical items. - Curious Science is a specialist dealer in medical, scientific and curiosity antiques from around the world. The shop is located in Fulham, London, UK. - A collection of medical instruments used in anesthesia and gynecology with a section on medical electricity. (In Italian, French and English) - Educational site for collectors and those interested in antique medical, surgical, and bloodletting instruments. - Site contains a museum of classical microscopes ranging from the first European microscopes built in the sixteenth century to modern microscopes from around the world. - Offers displays of quackery, fraud, deceit and deception; an online collection of medical chicanery. - Manufacturers and suppliers of barometer parts mercury tubes and thermometers for the repair and restoration of antique and modern barometers. - Presents a collection grouped by medical specialty, with photographs and descriptions of each item. - Dr. Michael Echols presents information on Civil War surgical sets with numerous photos of a large collection of American made surgical sets. Identification, pricing, and set evaluations provided at no charge. - English seller and repairer consistent with the original specifications of the device. - A collection of all types of historical scales and weights from different periods of the past 3000 years. - Complete articles are posted from the journal, American Artifacts, on early microscope makers, hand corn shellers, early surveying instruments, a variety of quack medical devices, as well as information on early patents. - Includes selection of old anaesthetic equipment which offers an insight into the evolution of the specialty of anaesthesia over the past century. - Austrian dealer of antique medical and scientific instruments including globes. - Buying, selling, repair, and restoration of antique mercurial and aneroid barometers, clocks and watches. Also restore other types of antiques. Includes examples of stock. Located in Leominster, England. - Sells a full range of scientific instruments, including globes and planetaria, mineralogical apparatus, microscopes and accessories, calculating apparatus, and physics demonstration apparatus. - A resource site for the antique weights formerly used by apothecaries, chemists, druggists and pharmacists. Most British weights of the 19th and 20th centuries illustrated and described. A forum for exchange of information and discussion - Both a retail store and scientific and natural history museum specialising in medical and scientific instruments, natural history specimens and models. The website posts a news page every month.
