Germany 2005 |
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Deutsches Museum
My friend Andew Milmoe had been to Munich and told me about this amazing science and technology museum that he had seen. He spoke about it glowingly, but it wasn't until I visited the Deutsches Museum that I really understood what he meant.
To me, the museum seemed to be designed by a group of crazy people, who were dared to create the most complete and audacious collection of scientific and technological displays anywhere. Some of the items they had on display included: boats, planes, diesel engines, generators, locks, artificial hips, hearing aids, printing presses, drilling equipment, machining tools, chemicals, clocks, telephones, computers, rocket engines, magnets, capacitors, computer chips, automata, mechanical computation devices, water wheels, steam engines, typewriters, television cameras, film cameras, radios, etc.
They had everything. And it wasn't just that they had everything, it's that they didn't just have pictures. They had incredible reproductions and the real things. They had an actual ship from the 1800's--inside the museum--that they had cut open to show you what it looked like. The section on mining alone would take you 3 hours to fully appreciate. It had reproductions of actual mines, across history and across mining styles. Curious about the 6 main techniques of coal mining? Well, they reconstructed all of them for you, under the museum.
I wasn't able to photograph everything. I went twice, but didn't have the stamina, time, nor SD card memory enough to capture it all.
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 Boat machine room I |
 Boat machine room II |
 Boat machine room III |
 Small steamboat |
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 Early diesel engine |
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 Large Sterling engine |
 Sterling engine description |
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 Philips Sterling Engine |
 Early turbine engine |
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 Geeky man enjoys steam engines |
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 Turbine engine |
 Steam engine |
 Early portable steam powerplant |
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 Giant single cylinder steam engine |
 Steam powered water pump |
 Laser cutter |
 Kickass industrial CNC machine |
 19th century machine shop I |
 19th century machine shop II |
 19th century machine shop III |
 Patient Linden |
 Old lock I |
 Old lock II |
 Lock mechanical concepts |
 Giant piston |
 Russian capsule (FG), jet airplane (BG) |
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 3 floors of flying machines |
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 Jet plane cross section |
 Messerschmitt |
 Messerschmitt |
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 Helicopter gearbox |
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 V2 rocket |
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 Boeing 707 cockpit |
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 Plane from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
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 That 70's Flight Attendant |
 Tugboat and Windmill |
 Radio controlled helicopter |
 Early radio control equipment |
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 Lots 'o RC engines |
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 Mechanical flying birds |
 V2 rocket II |
 V2 rocket devastation |
 Moonscape model |
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 Space exploration room |
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 Early rocket car |
 Spacelab I camera |
 Rocket engine detail |
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 Crazy printing press |
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 Another printing press |
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 Mechanical typesetter |
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 Optical typesetter |
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 Your body is a wonderland...of scientific stuff |
 Early pacemakers |
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 Iron lung |
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 Hip joints |
 "What?" "I said hearing aids. Geez" |
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 The Room of Electricity! |
 Electrical cables |
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 Illumination carriage from 1878 |
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