With over 300 entries from the ancient abacus to X-ray diffraction, as represented by a ca. 1900 photo of an X- ray machine as well as the latest research into

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This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence present