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In the early days of motoring, tricycles were considered safer and more stable than motorbikes. Don't fancy it much.
The Little Professor is in the Science Museum!! Yay!!
Released in 1979 - the most recent object in the history of computing gallery, with the possible exception of a couple of sinclair calculators. It's bizarre, the gallery just cuts off at the *exact moment* the home computer started happening. No Lisa, no Dragon, no ZX80...
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The Science Museum London UK
The Science Museum is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and today is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.1 million visitors annually.
Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, the Science Museum does not charge visitors for admission.
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So create a ridiculously complicated and over-engineered machine for doing it for you in twice the time whilst dripping oil on your apple. Those crazy Victorians.
The Spectrum 48k. I had one as a 5-year-old in 1982, and now it's in the Science Museum in London.
That's not the original manual though - I still have mine! Notice the copy of Jet Set Willy lurking in the background. Should really have been Manic Miner....
Designed to be given to children having a cochlea implant operation so that they can understand what is going to happen.
Part of the Playing With Science exhibition at the Science Museum.
Charles Babbage proposed the use of "Number Cards", "pierced with certain holes and stand opposite levers connected with a set of figure wheels ... advanced they push in those levers opposite to which there are no holes on the card and thus transfer that number" in his description of the Calculating Engine's Store.
Herman Hollerith invented the recording of data on a medium that could then be read by a machine. "After some initial trials with paper tape, he settled on punched cards...", developing punched card data processing technology for the 1890 US census. He founded the Tabulating Machine Company (1896) which was one of four companies that merged to form Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR), later renamed IBM. IBM manufactured and marketed a variety of unit record machines for creating, sorting, and tabulating punched cards, even after expanding into electronic computers in the late 1950s. IBM developed punched card technology into a powerful tool for business data-processing and produced an extensive line of general purpose unit record machines. By 1950, the IBM card and IBM unit record machines had become ubiquitous in industry and government. "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate," a generalized version of the warning that appeared on some punched cards (generally on those distributed as paper documents to be later returned for further machine processing, cheques for example), became a motto for the post-World War II era.
A Hollerith card can be seen in the previous picture.
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet at the Science Museum in London.
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was a German rocket-powered interceptor aircraft. Designed by Alexander Lippisch, it is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational and the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1000 km/h (621 mph) in level flight. Its design was revolutionary and its performance unprecedented.
Nice Buttons.
The green and White plastic is particularly '1960s functional machine' - I associate it with my Dad's work in a university chemistry lab for some reason. Maybe they had old machines like this...
Mackenzie and her friend L spent about 20 minutes watching the balls spin down the coaster inside the glass. So cool.
Icy Bodies dislpay at the Science Musuem.
"Little pieces of solid carbon dioxide (or dry ice) plop into a pool of water and float across its surface, ricocheting off the walls, creating misty swirls and spurting out jets of gas.
Little pieces of solid carbon dioxide (or dry ice) plop into a pool of water and float across its surface, ricocheting off the walls, creating misty swirls and spurting out jets of gas."