Gonimeter, 1880s

A goniometer is an instrument that either measures an angle or allows an object to be rotated to a precise angular position. In crystallography, goniometers are used for measuring angles between crystal faces. They are also used in X-ray diffraction to rotate the samples. The groundbreaking investigations of physicist Max von Laue and colleagues into the atomic structure of crystals in 1912 involved a goniometer

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