This dimension names the person credited with inventing a specific scientific instrument. Wikipedia notes that units of measurement have "played a crucial role in human endeavour from early ages up to the present," a role that the instruments used to apply those units share, each credited to a named inventor. Browsing this way collects every instrument credited to the same inventor.
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1. Online Etymology Dictionary: instrument
Online Etymology DictionaryOnline Etymology Dictionary, instrument entry, lead senseQuote, Online Etymology Dictionary, instrument entry, lead sense
late 13c., "musical instrument, mechanical apparatus for producing musical sounds," from Old French instrument, enstrument "means, device; musical instrument"
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