The museum is located in an ordinary building which opens up inside to the adjacent church, which hs been given over to a display of machines. There is Foucaut's pendulum working away, and airplanes soaring in the cavernous space.
The museum is organized into sections of transportation, communications, materials, etc. Somehow we got started in the wrong direction, and saw the entire museum backwards, from the most recent innovations to the oldest in the collection.
There were many examples of the forerunners of modern objects, like lightbulbs....
and cameras, including this "secret" camera, disguised in a cravat of the day
which requires a few accessories we don't use anymore,
as well as the required chemicals to develop your film or negatives, since Walgreens had not been invented yet...
calculators...
and alarm clocks. This one has a bell to wake you up, while
this one shoots a little canon!
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