[modeleng] Re: Pfeifferbahn now Milner Hunslet
- From: Jesse <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:08:38 -0600
The "cleaned up" displays at OSC reminded me of my last trip to the
Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Ill. I was first there in
1949 and spent the entire day looking at the industrial exhibits, the
Physics displays etc. The industrial exhibits showed patterns and
castings for a four cylinder automobile engine, how twist drills were
made and a multitude of other manufacturing displays. Physics displays
were all interactive wherein you pressed a button and they operated so
you could see how the laws of physics worked. There was a huge
"Newton's Cradle" made of iron balls hanging in contact with each other,
a 3 foot diameter horizontal wheel with an electric train track around
the rim. Push the button and the train would start forward while
pushing the track backwards, Newtons law of action and reaction. Lots
of similar goodies to tickle the mind. A Foucault pendulum about 40
feet high swinging back and forth while knocking over a circle of wooden
pegs as the earth rotated.
Switch to a few years ago and most everything was graphics while all the
solid exhibits were gone with the exception of the very real full size
coal mine and the pendulum. The WWII Nazi U-boat was something new, but
that was about it. I left a much sadder person since I remembered how it
once was before it had been dumbed down and sanitized for the under
performing school students (I suppose) to be able to comprehend via
graphics. Oh, there was a robot inside a large glass cage that would
perform pre-programmed tasks of stacking wooden blocks and then
unstacking them. All automated of course and did nothing to charge up
creative minds as had the old displays. Just graphics on the walls to
appeal to the graffiti crowd of which Chicago has plenty.
> That cutaway in Canada is "Gertrude" I believe....a real shame, had she not
> been cut up there is no doubt the loco would have been a restoration
> candidate.
>
> Cliff Ward
> Cary, North Carolina
> USA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jeff Dayman
> Side note - there was also a cutaway full size Hunslet engine in the "old"
> Ontario Science Centre in Toronto at that time. Since then, the loco and
> many of the technical / heavy industry displays at OSC are gone.
> JD
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