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SUMMARY:Scientific instruments on display at the EPFL Open Days
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CATEGORIES:Public Science Events
DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, EPFL celebrates its 50th anniversary. Three years a
 fter the last edition\, the school decided to open its doors to the public
  again. On September 14-15\, the Open Days were the opportunity for people
  from Lausanne and beyond to visit the campus and discover how scientific 
 teaching and research are conducted at EPFL. \n            Am
 ong a wide variety of disciplines represented\, the DataSquare – one of 
 the three pavilions of ArtLab – hosted a Digital Humanities exhibit. I
 n between a digitised vision of seventeenth-century Venice and a sociology
  of Tinder algorithm\, the Laboratory for the history of science and techn
 ology (LHST) exhibited a number of artifacts from the Collection of scie
 ntific instruments of the University of Lausanne. Curated until now by Pr
 of. Jean-François Loude\, this collection gathers more than a thousand ob
 jects dating back to the eighteenth century and spanning fields from elec
 tromagnetism to acoustics through thermodynamics.\n           
  Today\, one of the missions of the Lab is to preserve\, curate\, and pro
 mote this scientific and cultural heritage. Therefore\, Véronique Mauron
  and Jérôme Baudry selected and displayed twenty-four instruments. At
 tracted by the shininess of brass\, visitors of all ages were guided by o
 ur explanations through the discovery and understanding of a Saussure elec
 troscope\, a kaleidoscope\, and a one of the first electric motors. The us
 e of other instruments such as Chladni plates and a spectroscope was highl
 ighted by the projection of short videos from the Musée d’histoire de
 s sciences of Geneva. On Saturday afternoon\, visitors were pleased with t
 he spectacle of a series of experiments on vacuum\, led by demonstrator Gi
 lles Hernot from the museum\, illustrating how some of exhibited instrume
 nts such as Magdeburg hemispheres and air pumps were used several centurie
 s ago.\n            This two-day event in the DataSquare\, coo
 rdinated by the Collège des Humanités\, shed light on the weaving of dis
 ciplines and the collaboration between engineers\, scientists\, and histor
 ians within the Digital Humanities Institute. It also gave future master s
 tudents in the Digital Humanities a glimpse of what it is possible to achi
 eve in the field.\n 
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