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Drawings
Science Museum, London - 2004
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Overheard (two boys, one to the other, pointing to open-decked plane): 'Look, how can you sit in that? How cold would that be?'
Top: Junkers Bremen 1928, De Haviland Dragon 1932, De Haviland Moth 1934, Fokker 1932, Douglas 1936 - Middle: Armstrong Argosy 1926, Ju 52 1933, Haviland Dorads 1934 Bottom: Vickers 1920, Handley Page 1931 |
| Symington's original marine steam engine 1788 - did a few experimental trips on a lake. |
| This was one of the great interiors in London, but it has now been destroyed, for commercial reasons. They wanted more space for their shop. Most of the engines are now gone. I'm glad I got this drawing done in time, but I had planned a whole series just of this room. |
| 'Puffing Billy' c.1814, oldest locomotive extant. These early locs were still too slow for passengers and only used for mining. |
| Stephenson's 'Rocket', 1829, which constitutes the literally groundbreaking start of modern railway travel. |
| 'Digitopolis' (stuff about computers) in the 'Welcome Wing' |
| Model of Newcomen Steam Engine from 1712, used for draining water out of mines. It can be seen as the grand-daddy of steam engines, although things only started making headway in 1777 with Watt's far superior invention. - Celestial and terrestrial globes, 1766 (King George III Collection, floor 4). |
| Models of 19th century Coastal and Fishing Craft: Lugger (c.1820), Mount's Bay Lugger, Oyster Smack. (the museum has a superb collection of model ships, see also 11b and 21b) 6a Not sure if this still exists, it was part of a series of introduction showcases at the entrance. Here are things representing 'entertainment' The tiny contraption underneath the loudspeaker is a flip book. |
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Box with things representing 'entertainment' The tiny contraption underneath the loudspeaker is a flip book.
This too no longer exists, sacrifeced for more shopping space. Not sure why they don't turn the whole damn building into a shopping mall and be done with it. |
| 'Refrigeration'. The photo mammoth, found frozen in Siberia, is included to demonstrate the preserving power of ice. (floor 4) |
| Model Ladle Machine and Model Cornmill, used on a boat set in a currant. (both made in Lyon, 1753) (King George III Collection) |
| Garrett's Portable Horsedriven Threshing Machine, patented 1843-50 |
| 19th century wagons and Winnowing Machine. |
| First Marine Gas Turbine 1947 (Vickers, Manchester) |
| Model of 18th c. water-powered factory. |
| The first mass-market photo-cameras, from around 1900, including the Box Brownie (with a Brownie gremlin on the packaging). |
| Original Hardy Continuous Plankton Recorder, 1925 (Doesn't it look like a caged animal?) |
| Ship's Wireless Cabin (Marconi, 1910) - The one bit that gives away its age is the Victorian chair. |
| 'Model Walkway' (elevated section on South side of main hall): Ariane V Launcher 1996, 'Talk with Barbie Doll' interactive toy 1997, Teaching Model Pelvis in 9 Months of Pregnancy 1998. |
| Santa Maria (1492) including a little Christopher on the deck. - Globe from the same year by Martin Behaim (Nuremberg). The thingy on the left is called 'Cipangu' (Japan) and the stuff on the right is Europe and Africa. America did not exist. |
| Flight Hall (floor 4) |
| Main Hall showing a bunch of small cars going up the wall (Fiat, Citroen, Morris Minor, VW Beetle, Saab), a suspended Lockhead Electron Airliner (1935), and the Ford Model T (1916). But no Daimler-Benz. |
| Anatomical models and Phrenology heads. (Phony science which associated mental characteristics with the shape of your head, nicely satirized in R.Töpffers graphic novel 'Monsieur Crepin', 1837) |
| Model of the 'Rocket', commissioned by the Museum in 1909 - top left: two peepshows of engineers achievements (incl. Brunel Tunnel), Parian Ware busts of George & Robert Stephenson, bottom right: personal relics of Stephenson. |
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