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Opening Address by W. Spottiswoode, F.R.S., &c. THE opening of this Exhibition may prove an epoch in the science of Great Britain. We find here collected, for the first time within the walls of one building, a large number of the most remarkable instruments, gathered from all parts of the civilised world, and from almost every period of scientific research. These instruments, it must be remembered, are not merely masterpieces of constructive skill, but are the visible expression of the penetrative thought, the mechanical equivalent of the intellectual processes of the great minds whose outcome they are.
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Section—Physics. Nature 14, 54–56 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014054a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/014054a0