time-microscopes

Updated: June 28, 2025

In fact, these instruments may be said to be time-microscopes. Such appliances have not only effected a revolution in physiology, by the power of analysing the phenomena of muscular and nervous activity which they have conferred, but they have furnished new methods of measuring the rate of movement of projectiles to the artillerist.

Thomas Henry Huxley - The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century