Abstract
Historians of technology and science have sometimes paid insufficient attention to the material and the artifactual. Captive of documents and memoirs and impatient with the static displays of museums designed primarily to glorify, historians had little motivation to pay attention to the efforts of museology. It is, therefore, particularly striking that both the Science Museum and the Museum of London recently sponsored seminars and conferences on the importance of the skilled trades and the material evidence they left behind. Most remarkable of all is the opening in November 1993 of an exhibition featuring the King George III collection of scientific instruments, most not seen by the public in more than a decade. The curators, Alan Morton and Jane Wess, have produced a superb permanent display at the Science Museum. Much of the collection exhibited consists of instruments commis-
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