[Shop-talk] Cool thing I saw in London

Dave dave1massey at cs.com
Thu Apr 24 06:00:16 MDT 2014


OSHA Is no impediment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjtzib0G9Rs

BTW it would seem odd that they would have a Van Der Graaf generator
instead of a Tesla coil.

Dave



-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Brooks <JIBrooks at Live.com>
To: 'Shop-Talk' <Shop-talk at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wed, Apr 23, 2014 8:07 pm
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Cool thing I saw in London


I definitely second Doug's suggestion.

In any country check out both the industry and transportation museums.
We
visited Hungary and Croatia last fall and both had amazing museums
typically
for the equivalent of $2 - $7.  While a diesel engine or turbine is the
same
anywhere, the transportation museums which had a lot of the standard
stuff,
also had eastern bloc cars and motorcycles that I've never seen before.

Zagreb's (Croatia) technology museum had a Tesla exhibit with a huge
VanDegraaf generator.  The talk was all in Croatian, so we were a bit
lost.
They called for volunteer from the audience to go inside a (Faraday)
cage
that they arced a 6+ foot spark to.  Whoa, I'm not used to stuff like
that
with OSHA around.

Most of the displays had the native language and English too.

Thanks for bringing back some cool memories Doug!

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Doug Braun
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 8:31 AM
To: Shop-Talk
Subject: [Shop-talk] Cool thing I saw in London

If any of you on this list ever go to London, be sure to visit the
Science
Museum (across the street from the V&A museum).  It has an amazing
collection of stuff from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to
the
present, including the reconstructed workshop of James Watt, inventor of
the modern steam engine.  (And it's free.)

Doug
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