Victoria Station was not that busy.
but we had missed the morning rush hour, tube to South Kensington, past the Natural History Museum,
and here we are at the Science Museum,
or twist to demonstrate magnetism as used in electrical motors, at least I think that was what this one was about,
next on to household appliances, it almost looks like the sewing machines from yesterday have come to haunt us!
vacuum cleaners, I know Diana found Steve and Kai's one fun to use,
I never thought it would happen, but it has, there in front of me as an exhibit was a television I remember my grandfather had in the mid 1950's, the one on the left of the red one, above it a magnifying lens to make the 7" screen look like 9" one, what memories, all the local kids came it to look at it, in those days the curtains had to be pulled as there was little or no contrast, so the room had to be dark to see anything, now ultra slim 3D LCD televisions are here that you can look at no matter how bright the room is,
you may hear someone of my age instead of saying they are going to the bathroom or toilet will sat 'I am going to sped a penny', well this is where the saying comes from, to use a public toilet years ago you would put a penny into the slot slide the bolt and enter the water closet, (WC), and this is one of the many different types of mechanisms that allowed you to do it,
Diana had to do a 'Mission Impossible' and reach the safe with out the alarm going off, Tom Cruise will not miss any sleep tonight!
then back to early steam railways, Puffing Billy,
and The Rocket,
then the Bramah's lock, the 200 guinea prize went unclaimed for 67 years,
Diana looks at Miss England, that's my girl!
now that's what I call an engine, a Napier W 12,
on to other things, a dress made of paper, (avoid rain or risk being over exposed!),
or this dress all parts interchangeable needing no stitches or catches to hold it together, it all interlocks, clever,
we then went to the force field 4D experience, not as good as the one at the London Eye but pretty good 3D special effects, but the 4th D was just a up down sort of thing,
another steam love of mine traction engines, we might see a lot more of these later in the week,
another gallery that Diana liked, lots of models to play with,
but the sad fact was that as busy as it looked less than half the exhibits actually worked, most were broken,
then to the flight wing, yes it is upside down I did not publish it the wrong way up, it is a Pitts aerobatic plane,
many times I have heard of the Schneider Trophy but never seen it, now I have, this is it above,
the world famous Harrier jump jet, a technological breakthrough of its time,
a Vickers Vimy from the First World War,
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