Bulletin 102
Friday 29 January 2010
Appropriate material will be referenced in Physics Abstracts    
Editorial and Cover Story   1
Annual General Meeting at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Richard Dunn 2
Announcements   3
John Seller: Instrument Maker and Plagiarist John Davis and Christopher Daniel 6
An Early French Barometer with Unusual Logo D. A. Bateman 11
Reading Between the Lines: The Instrument Trade in the Newspapers of Early 18th Century London Alexi Shannon Baker 12
Mystery Object: Known Object of Unknown Use   18
Book Reviews Richard Dunn 19
Physics Experiments for Everyone: German Makers Paul Zoller 21
Dr Hooke's 'Weather-Clock' and its Self-Emptying Bucket Allan Mills
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Letter to the Editor   30
A Confusion of Units: Weights and Measures in France Before the Metric System Michael Steele 31
Niels Christensen, Pioneering Advocate of the O-Ring Allan Mills 34
Current and Future Events   35
Microscopes and Canada Balsam: Andrew Pritchard's letters to Camille Sebastian Nachet Bob Nuttall 36
Report of the SIS Visit to Paris: Monday 25th May until Friday 29th May 2009   40

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