Thursday, May 30, 2013
The Museum of the History of Sciences
Today we went off to Ghent to visit the Museum of the History of Sciences at the University of Ghent. At the museum we learned about the history of moving images (early cartoons), some basic electrodynamics, and we concluded with the basic history of famous chemists from the Ghent area. Personally, being an electrical engineering major, I found the electricity section to be the most interesting. I especially liked the part when she turned the crank and produced the static electricity between the two balls.
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I was quite surprised that I got a picture of the sparks. I am also grateful that you didn't list the cartoonist scientists name either.
ReplyDeleteI also found the demonstration to be one of the most interesting lecture parts. I also found the information part about Pleateau to be entertaining considering he's the father of film even though he only invented animated pictures and not movies themselves.
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ReplyDeleteI thought the experiment was really neat as well and the tour guides story about Napoleon wanting a demonstration and proposing using a soldier to convey the electrical current was pretty nerve wracking but I guess not too surprising. I also really liked her explanation of the monkey representation of the benzene ring and all of her random background stories.
Although I am a Biology major, I still enjoyed the static electricity section at the museum. I also really appreciated the tour guide telling us not to touch the spark. I felt a slight temptation to touch it, but alas I did not.
ReplyDeleteWhen learning about the Bakelight plastic, I couldn't help but thinking that there were alot of things in my grandparents house that were made of brown plastic.
ReplyDeleteIt really showed the quality of the static generator that after all these years it was able to function so well. Also I was surprised by the amount of voltage that you are able to create from one of those machines.
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