Department of Physics and Astronomy Machine Shop

"If you're not building original research equipment, you're not doing original research."  - Dr. Robert D. Spence

Inside the Shop		The Physics Shop Mission Statement Our objective is to design, build, and maintain the highest quality research and teaching instruments, while always keeping finished cost to a minimum and safety to a maximum. Our customers are the Faculty, Students and Staff of Michigan State University. We are part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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"I asked him where he had it made, he said he made it himself, & when I asked him where he got his tools said he made them himself & laughing added if I had staid for other people to make my tools & things for me... I had never made any thing..."
— Isaac Newton's recollection, the year before he died, of having made the first reflecting telescope; recorded by his niece's husband, John Conduitt, 31 August 1726
[Keynes MS 130.10, King's College, Cambridge, UK]

As Newton grew up on a farm in Lincolnshire, he would have been familiar with the basic rules we recognize at this shop:
•  The work is until the work isn't       •  Rust never sleeps