Instruments Of Science

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.