World Engineering Museums 13

[0707]

Here are some sites from Portugal. I invite other Forum posters to give links from your own countries.

Cheers

Luis Marques

http://www.esab.ipbeja.pt/museu/news.htm

http://museu.gulbenkian.pt/mainb.asp?size=sup&lang=pt

http://www.museudoscoches-ipmuseus.pt/en/frameset.htm

http://www.museu-caramulo.net/uk/estrada.shtml

http://www1.fis.uc.pt/museu/indexi.htm

http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/CVC/azulejos/eng/index.html

http://www.museumarinha.pt/museu/ENG/Homepage/index.aspx

http://www.emfa.pt/

http://www/po/musar/index.php?lang=ing

 

[ScottyUK]

I visited the National Railway Museum for the first time since I was a kid last year. My grandfather used to work for the LNER as a fireman then later as a driver. He drove some of the famous locomotives now in the museum as exhibits, but to him they were part of a job, not a piece of history. He was a steam guy through and through: my mother tells me he took great delight in dragging the early diesels back to works behind a steam locomotive when they broke down. The museum was a magical place to me as a twelve-year-old kid: when I went back last year I remarked to my wife that all the locomotives seemed smaller than I remembered them as a kid.


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Sometimes I only open my mouth to swap feet...

 

[jck26]

If you are an airplane, especially warplane, nut you must go to Dayton Ohio to see the National Museum of the US Air Force. Everything from the Wright Brothers to the F117 Stealth Fighter in 3 HUGH hangers.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/

Here is a quote from the Museum: "The museum has more than 300 aircraft and missiles on display in its galleries. The galleries are set up in chronological order, beginning with the 1909 Wright Flyer through today's stealth
aircraft."

This is next to Wright-Patternson Air Force base. Prepare to spend the day if this is your thing. A great gift shop.

 

[ozmosis]

KENAT
It would appear that there are two Bedlams (

http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/con.../08/history_ironbridge_mystery_feature.shtml)

[three if you count our house]. I always thought, and must have been told at some stage, that the Bedlam in Ironbridge laid claim to the phrase. However, I think having read the Bethlem Hospital version, that one sounds more plausible!

 

[0707]

For those who come to Portugal between 8 February – 29 April, 2007, I invite you to see “Ingenuity – Photography and Engineering, 1846-2006” in Caloust Gulbenkian Foundation at Lisbon.

http://www.gulbenkian.pt/agenda_detalhe.asp?ID=735&calendario=yes&day=08&month=02&year=2007

Regards

luis

 

[BJC]

Rocky Reach Dam on the Columbia River has a museum that is interesting. It used to be a "Museum of Electricity" but has varied the displays to of more intrest to people besides EEs and Electricans.

 

[Skogsgurra]

Believe it or not - but my wife is a Blast Furnace Master! We actually have an old blast furnace here in Granbergsdal, Sweden. It is not in working order, but we are right now restoring the "blowing machine" and may get some more machinery working a few years from now.

So, we are very grateful for the Iron Bridge tips. We will certainly go there! In the meantime, do visit the Granbergsdal site

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LA2-granbergsdal-2.jpg

and

http://www.granbergsdalsbyalag.se/kontakta_oss.html

(Sorry, only Swedish. Have to do something about that)

Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

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[FOETS]

My place of work (unnamed) should be classed as a museum with the relics of old equipment; and in particular the computer systems which predate the dinosaurs.

{PS. another second for Ironbridge - awesome)

 

[zeitghost]

I suppose that the Ironworks at Blaenavon should be mentioned.

Since it's now a world herritage site...

There ought to be a museum of copper smelting in Swansea since at one time 75% or more of world copper production came from there.

But there isn't.